Lullabies





Lullaby painted by 
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1875)

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles await you when you rise;
Sleep, pretty baby,
Do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby.

Care you know not, therefore sleep;
While I watch over you do not weep;
Sleep, pretty loved one,
Do not cry,
And I will sing, I will sing,
I will sing a lullaby.
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Rock-a-bye baby, in the tree top,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.

When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,

And down will come baby, cradle and all.

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Hush a bye don't you cry,

Go to sleep my little baby.
When you wake you shall have

All the pretty little horses.

Blacks and bays, dapple grays,

Coach and six white horses.

Hush a bye don't you cry,

Go to sleep my little baby.

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Sleep, baby, sleep 
Your father tends his sheep 
Your mother shakes the dreamland tree 
And softly dreams do fall for thee; 
Sleep, baby, sleep. 
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Day is done,
Gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky.
All is well, safely rest,
God is nigh.

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Lullaby, and good night,
With pink roses bedight,
With lilies o'erspread,
Is my baby's sweet head.
Lay you down now, and rest,
May your slumber be blessed.
Lay you down now, and rest,
May thy slumber be blessed.
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