Wednesday, January 26, 2011

My favorite lullabies as a child

When I was a child my mother sang me lullabies.  These were my favorites:

Far Away Places

Far away places with strange-soundin' names
Far away over the sea
Those far away places with the strange-soundin' names
Are callin', callin' me

Goin' to China or maybe Siam
I want to see for myself
Those far away places I've been readin' about
In a book that I took from the shelf

I start gettin' restless whenever I hear
The whistle of a train
I pray for the day I can get underway
And look for those castles in Spain

They call me a dreamer, well maybe I am
But I know that I'm yearnin' to see
Those far away places with the strange-soundin' names
Callin', callin' me

(I pray for the day when I'll find a way
Those far away places to see)

Those far away places with the strange-soundin' names that are
Callin', callin' me

The other song that was my favorite was Lavender's Blue  I have heard a few versions of this song, but the one I remember goes:

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly
Lavender's green,
If I were king, dilly dilly,
You'd be my queen.
Who told me so dilly dilly,
Who told me so,
I told myself, dilly dilly, I told me so,
If your dilly, dilly heart beats a dilly dilly way,
And if you answer yes,
In a dilly dilly church, on a dilly dilly day,
You'll be wed in a dilly dilly dress of
Lavender's blue, dilly dilly,
Lavender's green,
If I were king dilly dilly,
And you'd be my queen.

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