Lullaby For A Naughty Girl
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O Peace, Hannah Rachael, smacks are the fate
Of all little girls who are born to be great
And the greatest of Queens have all been little girls
Who dried up their tears on their kerchiefs and curls
Sleep, and your heart that has sobbed for so long
Will mend and grow merry and wake you to song
For the world is a lovelier place than it seems
And a smack cannot follow you into your dreams
The great Cleopatra was smacked on the head
And she wept as she lay in her great golden bed
But the great Cleopatra woke up with a smile
As she thought of the little boats out on the Nile
And Helen of Troy had many a smack
She moaned and she murmured the Greek for ‘Alack’
But the sun rose in Argos and wonderful joy
Came in the morning to Helen of Troy
They sent Guinevere without supper to sleep
To a little grey room at the top of the keep
Where the stars over Camelot waited and wept
Till the peeping moon told them Guinevere slept
There was grief in Castille and dismay in Madrid
When they smacked Isabella for something she did
But she slept and could laugh in the morning again
At the Dons of Castille, the Hidalgos of Spain
And oh, how Elizabeth cried in her cot
When she wanted her doll and her nanny said ‘not’
But the sparrows awoke and the summer sun rose
And there was the doll on her bed by her toes
So, sleep Hannah Rachael, smacks are the fate
Of all little girls who are born to be great
For the world is a lovelier place than it seems
And a smack cannot follow you into your dreams
Words by EV Rieu
Music ©Garvin Crawford. July 1970
Revised, October 1992
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