Sleep, Baby, Sleep (Cradle Song)

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




  1. Sleep, baby, sleep!
    Your father guards the sheep,
    your mother shakes a little tree,
    a dream falls gently down for thee.
    Sleep, baby, sleep!

  2. 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!

  3. 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!

  4. 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!

Es existieren einige Textvarianten, u. a.
"Thy father tends the sheep,
thy mother shakes the dreamland tree,
and down come lovely dreams for thee."

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