Here's an improved version. It occurred to me that the big jumps in the B part are for yodeling. Yodel softly - you don't want to wake the baby. [A ]Evening shadows are falling; the west is still red. Little eyes are so sleepy; come rest your head. Bold Buster keeps monsters from under the bed as I'm rocking my baby to sleep. [B ]Close your eyes now and listen. Hear the whippoorwill. He warbles by night and he hides by day. Count him: one-two-three, one-two-three, silly whippoorwill! You can't chase that old moon away. [A ]Little froggies are peeping at Mockingbird Creek, Saying "Night-time is coming, it's time for sleep. Daddy enters so gently, in stockings he creeps; for I'm rocking my baby to sleep. [B Counting one two three four five six; hush, you whippoorwill; serenade us from some far and moonlit hill. Little baby is weary; now don't you make her/him weep. For I'm rocking my baby to sleep [B]oh deh lay hee, deh lay hee, oh deh lay hee oh Pretty birdies go hide in the woods so deep. ].oh deh lay hee, de lay hee, oh deh lay hee oh while I’m rocking my baby to sleep. =============== If you think that froggies and birdies are twee, take a few deep breaths. Next imagine that a baby's head is on your shoulder, surprising heavy and beautifully warm. Also small and vulnerable. Once you do, singing of froggies and birdies will seem completely natural.
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