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SICILIAN FOLK LULLABY by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "LOVELY, LOVELY, IS MY SON"
Last Line: THEN RESTORE HIM LATER TO ME
Subject(s): SLEEP;

Lovely, lovely is my son!
Possessed he but wings
An angel he'd make.
Come, Sleep, come bear him away,
Then restore him later to me.
E a-la-o!



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