Nana | Go to sleep, Child, sleep

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Claudia Landivar Cody

Nana

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE HUN IRI

Duérmete, niño, duerme,
Duerme, mi alma,
Duérmete, lucerito
De la mañana.
Nanita, nana,
Nanita, nana.
Duérmete, lucerito
De la mañana.

Translator's note: in this context, "nana" is a lullaby. The "ita" ending in "nanita" is an affectionate diminutive.

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946), "Nana", published 1914 [voice and piano], from Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas, no. 5. [
text verified 1 time
]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Claudia Landivar Cody) , title 1: "Nana", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Laura Claycomb) , title 1: "Lullaby", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Berceuse", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Zoltán Retkes) , title 1: "Altató", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , title 1: "Seoithín seó", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Arthur Rishi

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 20

Nana

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

Go to sleep, Child, sleep,
Sleep, my soul,
Go to sleep, little star
Of the morning.
Lulla-lullaby,
Lulla-lullaby,
Sleep, little star
of the morning.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 24