This song is not well-known. That's for the very good
reason that I wrote it almost forty years ago for my
youngest son. It has the last-and-first-line repetition,
but I don't think it would work, trying to eliminate the
line, because the repetition becomes part of a separate
sentence in that next verse, and of course it would mess
up the tune. So, alas, no long-or-short option, and of
course it's pretty short as it is.

                  LULLABY FOR A BREASTFED BABY

Go to sleep, my little boy   (girl)
Dream about a milk-filled booby!
Mama nurse you in a while
When your time has come.

When your time has come, my boy   (girl)
Mama milk there'll be in plenty
When your mama has let down
And nursin' time has come.

When nursin' time has come, my boy   (girl)
Mama milk will fill your tummy
With the nipple in your mouth
You'll never need your thumb!

Dave Oesterreich