Musik: Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814)
Text: Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818)
Text: Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818)

- Sleep, baby, sleep!
Your father guards the sheep,
your mother shakes a little tree,
a dream falls gently down for thee.
Sleep, baby, sleep! - Sleep, baby, sleep!
In heaven lie the sheep.
The little lambs like stars of gold,
the moon's the shepherd of the fold.
Sleep, baby, sleep! - Sleep, baby, sleep!
To you, I'll give a sheep.
And with a little golden bell,
It'll play with you and stories tell.
Sleep, baby, sleep! - Sleep, baby, sleep!
Away now, guard the sheep!
Away with you, black sheepdog fine,
and don't wake up this baby mine!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Schlagworte: englisch, Schlaflied










"Thy father tends the sheep,
thy mother shakes the dreamland tree,
and down come lovely dreams for thee."