by Gertrude Ross (1889 - 1957)

Japanese lullaby
Language: English 
Go to sleep brown-eyed baby
Sleep
The daylight is waning
Darkness creeps upon us
Sleep
The Poppies are nodding
Their little heads are drooping,
Sleep
Birds in their nests in the cherry trees are sleeping
Sleep
A little silvery moonbeam creeps in the side my baby,
sleep
Morning comes with the rising sun
Moonbeams and stars away must run
So go to sleep my wee brown-eyed baby
Sleep
Sleep

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Note: in line 11 a misprint in the manuscript (word 2: "tillle") has been corrected to "little"; and in line 14 a misprint (word 4: "awway") has been corrected to "away" .


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This text was added to the website: 2025-04-24
Line count: 17
Word count: 69