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FRENCH FOLK LULLABY by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "HUSH, MY BABY, SLEEP"
Last Line: THEN MY DAUGHTER MUST BE WED
Hush, my baby, sleep;
Soon my little child will slumber.
Hush! don't even peep,
But go right to sleep, my dear.
Holy Virgin, let me pray,
Rock my little child to sleep,
That he soon may crawl and creep,
And may call: Papa,--Mamma.

Foolish Wide Eyes! Lullaby!
Now, Saint Catherine, draw nigh,
Put to sleep my little one
Till her fifteenth year be done!
When the fifteen years are sped,
Then my daughter must be wed!



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