The Infant King (Edgar Pettman)

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• (Posted 2024-01-26)  CPDL #78902:       

Editor: Pierce Cullen (submitted 2024-01-26).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 356 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2015-12-18)  CPDL #37911:         

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2015-12-18).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 37 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: The Infant King
Composer: Edgar Pettman
Lyricist: Sabine Baring-Gould

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1920
Description: Originally published by A.W.Ridley & Co. Assigned to E.H.Freeman Ltd in 1952

Original text and translations

English text

Sing lullaby!
Lullaby baby, now reclining,
sing lullaby!
Hush, do not wake the infant King.
Angels are watching, stars are shining
over the place where He is lying:
sing lullaby!

Sing lullaby!
Lullaby baby, now a-sleeping,
sing lullaby!
Hush, do not wake the infant King.
Soon will come sorrow with the morning,
soon will come bitter grief and weeping:
sing lullaby!

Sing lullaby!
Lullaby baby, now a-dozing,
sing lullaby!
Hush, do not wake the infant King.
Soon comes the cross, the nails, the piercing,
then in the grave at last reposing;
sing lullaby!

Sing lullaby!
Lullaby! is the babe awaking?
Sing lullaby!
Hush, do not stir the infant King.
Dreaming of Easter, gladsome morning.
Conquering death, its bondage breaking:
sing lullaby!