"Tot's Lullaby" (1880)
as sung by
Miss JULIA WILSON
in
"Joshua Whitcomb"
Words by Denman Thompson
Music by Walter Gale

Boston, MA: Oliver Ditson & Co.
New York, NY: C. H. Ditson & Co.
Chicago, IL: Lyon & Healy
Philadephia, PH: J. E. Ditson & Co.
Music Printer: J. Frank Wilson, Boston, MA
[Source: 139/016@Levy]

[CHORUS]
Go to sleep, mother, 
While I watch and pray, 
And I’ll sing the little songs you once sang to me. 
Go to sleep, mother, 
While I watch in pray’r, 
Remember the angels will be kind to you there. 

1. There were cherries ripe and little boy blue, 
Hushabye, baby, and violets too, 
Ride a rockhorse to Danbury crow, 
And then one, two, come buckle my shoe. 

[CHORUS sung after each verse]
Go to sleep, moth er, 
While I work and pray, 
And I’ll sing the little songs you once sang to me. 
Go to sleep, mother, 
While I watch in pray’r, 
Remember the angels will be kind to you then.

2. Your poor heart is sad and I am tired too, 
Rest a little, mamma, while I sing to you. 
Up in a tree a noble I see, 
Singing sweet songs to you and me.