Sleep, baby, sleep (Elizabeth Stirling)

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• (Posted 2023-12-12)  CPDL #78111:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-12).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 635 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Sleep, baby, sleep
Composer: Elizabeth Stirling
Lyricist: George Wither
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1891 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

Sleep, sleep, baby, sleep,
What ails my dear,
What ails my darling thus to cry,
Be still, my child, and lend thine ear,
To hear me sing thy lullaby,
Be still, my dear,
Sweet baby, sleep.

Sleep, baby, sleep, and nothing fear,
For whosoever thee offends
By thy protector threaten’d are,
And God and angels are thy friends,
Be still, my dear,
Sweet baby, sleep.