Go To Sleep, My Darling Baby

DESCRIPTION: "Go to sleep, my darling baby, Cuddle down and go to rest. Nestle here where heart-throbs tell you, You are safe on mamma's breast." The birds and flowers are asleep, so baby can sleep too; the birds, flowers, and sun will come out when it is time to wake
AUTHOR: Words: Charlotte B. Merritt / Music: Hubert P. Main (source: hymnary.org)
EARLIEST DATE: 1879 (copyright date on the page shown at hymnary.org)
KEYWORDS: baby lullaby bird flowers | sun sleep
FOUND IN:
Roud #17907
RECORDINGS:
The DeZurik Sisters (The Cackle Sisters), "Go To Sleep My Darling Baby" (Vocalion 4781-A, 1938)
Hannah & Tom, "Go to Sleep my Little Baby" (Piotr-Archive #113, recorded 04/06/2022)
NOTES [89 words]: The description is based on the text at hymnary.org. I'm far from sure the DeZurik sisters recording (which seems clearly to be the source of the Hannah & Tom recording) is the same; the lyrics are dramatically different. But how do you distinguish songs that are all about cuddling babies and trying to get them to go to sleep? I have been unable to find any source for the DeZurik version, which begins Go to sleep, my darling baby,
Oh baby, the moon smiles above.
Cuddle closer, little baby,
Oh baby, you're my precious love. - RBW
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