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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