An Old Cradle Song (Henry Walford Davies)

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• (Posted 2023-10-09)  CPDL #76171:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-09).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 332 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: An Old Cradle Song
Composer: Henry Walford Davies
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Nursery-rhyme

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1909 Chappell & Co.
Description: Eight Nursery Rhymes (set 2) Op. 23 No. 7.

Original text and translations

English text

Sleep, baby, sleep!
Our cottage vale is deep.

The little lamb is on the green
With woolly fleece, so soft and clean.

Sleep, baby, sleep!
Down where the woodbines creep.

Be always like the lamb so mild,
A kind and sweet and gentle child.

Sleep, baby, sleep!
Sleep!