Rockaby, lullaby (Hubert Platt Main)

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• (Posted 2023-11-14)  CPDL #77326:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 297 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Rockaby, lullaby
Composer: Hubert Platt Main
Lyricist: Josiah Gilbert Holland
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1909 S. M. Bixby & Co.
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English text

Rockaby, lullaby, bees in the clover!
Crooning so drowsily, crying so low,
Rockaby, lullaby, dear little rover!
Down into wonderland,
Down to the under-land,
Go, now go!
Down into wonderland go.
Rockaby, lullaby, rain on the clover,
(Tears on the eyelids that waver and weep!)
Rockaby, lullaby—bending it over!
Down on the mother-world,
Down on the other world,
Sleep, oh sleep!
Down on the mother-world sleep.
Rockaby, lullaby, dew on the clover,
Dew on the eyes that will sparkle at dawn!
Rockaby, lullaby, dear little rover!
Into the stilly world,
Into the lily world,
Gone! now gone!
Into the lily world gone.