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Thread #67886 Message #1137419
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-Mar-04 - 05:36 PM
Thread Name: Origins: All the pretty little horses (date?)
Subject: Kyr Add: Golden Sklumbers
How about using "Golden Slumbers" - written by Thomas Dekker whose dates were 1575–1641 (subsequently borrowed from by Paul McCartney), so the period would be right:
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.
Mind you, Dekker might not have been too approved of, in a puritan household, since he wrote plays, and they were a bit Talibanesque about things like that. But maybe a lullaby woudl be acceptable? All depends how bigotted they are in the play you're doing...