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Thread #92384   Message #1764903
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
20-Jun-06 - 03:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Golden Cradle / The Fairy Nurse
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Golden Cradle - original lyrics
On her "Christmas Album, Light of the Stable," 1992.

Not lullabys, but-
A verse from Child, "The Carnal and the Crane", 55:5-6

Where is the golden cradle
That Christ was rocked in?
Where are the silken sheets
That Christ was wrapped in?

A manger was the cradle
That Christ was rocked in:
The provender the asses left
So sweetly he slept on

In the Kalevala-

On the very hem of heaven,
On a cloud the virgin rocked it,
Rocked the fire and swung the light,
Swung it in a golden cradle,
Swaying it on straps of silver,
So the silver straps were swaying.
And the golden cradle creaking;
Clouds were scudding, sky was screaming,
As the lid of heaven tilted
With the rocking of the fire,
With the swinging of the light.
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