What is this lullaby?

Subject: What is this lullabye?
From: Kiwi
Date: 04 Aug 98 - 07:29 PM

I don't even know if it's folk, though it sounds like it, so I figured I'd give it a try here. This song is called "M.L.K." or "Mlk" or some such, and I have a cover of it by the King's Singers:

Sleep, sleep tonight
And may your dreams be realized
If the thundercloud passes rain
So let it rain down on him So let it be

Sleep, sleep tonight
And may your dreams be realized
If the thundercloud passes rain
So let it rain down on him

Any ideas?

Slán,
Kiwi

Subject: RE: What is this lullabye?
From: Zorro
Date: 05 Aug 98 - 12:04 PM

This is a long, long, shot.... Could the MLK be Martin Luther King?? Sounds like a song of reassurance.

Subject: RE: What is this lullabye?
From: Teru
Date: 05 Aug 98 - 07:12 PM

Yes, MLK means Martin Luther King. I don't know much about this song, but it is sung by U2 mourning over the death of MLK.

Regards

Teru

Subject: RE: What is this lullabye?
From: Cuilionn
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 02:02 AM

Check out the last few recordings by Joan Baez. I think it shows up on her album "Recently" but it might be on another one... she sings it beautifully and I suspect there may be some useful info' in the liner notes. She might even have written it. She talks a great deal in her autobiography about time spent with/around Martin Luther King Jr., and she was once asked to sing a song to wake him up when his friends needed to consult him but recognized his exhaustion from "the good fight."

Good luck with your search,

--Cuilionn

Subject: RE: What is this lullabye?
From: Kiwi
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 07:04 AM

Cuilionn -

Thanks for your suggestion, and I will pursue that thread the next time I go to the library - which will likely be today, in fact, to pick up some reserved music. It makes more sense to me if Joan Baez has written it, because it surely doesn't sound like the usual U2 style of music...

Slán, Kiwi