A Cradle Song
(SSAA, piano four-hands) 4'20"
"Golden slumbers kiss your eyes" in this gentle lullaby.
Listen (mp3, 4.1 MB; The Meistersingers of Cherry Creek High School, Englewood, CO; Richard Larson conducting)
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Composer's Notes:
This is the second piece in Three About Babies, a primarily SATB set I was commissioned to write for the Meistersingers of Cherry Creek High School, Colorado. Here is the text, by Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker:
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
Care is heavy, therefore sleep you,
You are care, and care must keep you;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.