A Garden Lullaby (Jacques Offenbach)

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  • (Posted 2022-09-23)  CPDL #70910:     
Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-09-23).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 78 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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General Information

Title: A Garden Lullaby
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Lyricist: Edith Sanford Tillotson
Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: SA
Genre: SecularUnknown

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1920
Description: Arrangement of Belle nuit, the famous Barcarolle.

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Original text and translations

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Ev'ning breese,
come rock the trees,
The birds to slumber swinging;

Lull the flow'rs,
in shady bow'rs,
Their dreamland tryst to keep.

All the day,
the garden gay
With laughing life was ringing;

Now the sun,
his journey done,
Is veiled in shadows deep.

He lingers in the west,
A last smile to bestow,
Before he sinks to rest
'Neath the cloud-curtains low,
Sinking low.