I will watch the shadows
Creep softly round your head
I will rock your cradle bed
Silently I’ll weep
Suffer not my little child
Sleep in ecstasy
Put away your magic toys
It’s time to go to sleep

I can see your forehead soft
Your eyelids droop and close
Hear the gentle breathing
Of a child in sweet repose
You wil grow and life will be
A little stranger yet
Your childhood toys and teddy bears
You surely will forget

I will watch the shadows
Creep softly round your head
I will rock your cradle bed
Silently I’ll weep
Suffer not my little child
Sleep in ecstasy
Put away your magic toys
It’s time to go to sleep

I’ll sing to you a lullaby
Of long forgotten things
Of picnics in the summer fields
And green grasshopper’s wings
Come sit by me another day
And let me share the joy
I see in the sweet trusting face
Of my loved little boy

I will watch the shadows
Creep softly round your head
I will rock your cradle bed
Silently I’ll weep
Suffer not my little child
Sleep in ecstasy
Put away your magic toys
It’s time to go to sleep

Put away your magic toys
It’s time to go to sleep

(Original Words & Music by Sandra Jones)