Cradle Song (“Golden Slumbers” poem)

~ Poem

Annotation

From the Elizabethan-era play Patient Grissel by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton. Found in modern publications in Act IV Scene II.

Annotation last modified on 2022-05-31 17:42 UTC.

Relationships

writer:Thomas Dekker (English writer)
lyrics page:https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=4410 [info]
is the basis for:A Lullaby, op. 19 no. 2
Four Madrigals to Elizabethan Poems, op. 51: No. 3. A Cradle Song
Golden Slumbers (The Beatles)
Golden Slumbers
Golden Slumbers, H. 153
May Fair (Golden Slumbers “traditional” setting)
Sorrow’s Lullaby