# Cradle Song

- Music: Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (died 1935)
- Words: Harold Boulton (died 1935)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6403758

## The words

Sleep, child, and may thy cradle be A ship upon  
ahalcyon sea,  
Gliding with silver sail unfurl’d Beyond the  
turmoil of the world.  
Sing tenderly, tenderly, Lullaby,  
lullaby, Sing tenderly, Lullaby.  
Oh! drift into some drowsy bay,  
Where only quiet dreams hold sway,  
Where healing herbs no pain allow,  
Where golden birds on bended bough Sing  
soothingly, soothingly, Lullaby,  
lullaby. Sing soothingly, Lullaby.  
Then wake, wake, my babe, and step ashore Into  
thy mother’s arms once more;  
And my life’s journeys ever end Upon the  
bosom of a friend, Sing, tenderly,  
tenderly, Lullaby, lullaby,  
Sing tenderly, Lullaby. Sing tenderly,  
tenderly, Lullaby, lullaby,  
Sing tenderly, Lullaby.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).