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Lullaby - A lullaby is a song sung to children before they go to sleep. Find the
words to your favorite lullaby. The lullabies can also be read to your
baby.
One of the most famous lullabies, "Rock a bye baby",
is hardly lulling. Although it starts mildly enough, it quickly turns to
disaster.
Johannes Brahms wrote his famous "Lullaby" as a
cradle song (Wiegenlied, in German), originally for a young singer whom he knew,
Bertha Faber, on the occasion of the birth of her first child. The English
lyrics are similar to the original German lyrics.
The lullaby generally known as "Mockingbird"
makes many promises to the child if it will only be quiet and go to sleep, a
sentiment with which parents will be familiar.
This song has had the unusual distinction of two separate manifestations as a
popular song, first as the eponymous "Bo Diddley" and then, in a near-fugue
arrangement, as "Mockingbird", a hit first for the brother-and-sister team, Inez
and Charlie Foxx, and then for then husband and wife James Taylor and Carly
Simon, singing the Foxx arrangement.
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