Lullaby (Arthur Foote)

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• (Posted 2023-10-16)  CPDL #76384:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-16).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 379 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Lullaby
Composer: Arthur Foote
Lyricist: Thomas Dekker
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1901 C. C. Birchard and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

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.

From the play Patient Grissel (1603)
Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-1632)
Henry Chettle (c. 1564-c. 1606)
William Haughton (d. 1605)