Sweet and Low

DESCRIPTION: "Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow... While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps." Sleep on mother's breast. Father will come soon, on "silver sails out of the west"
AUTHOR: Words: Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Music: Joseph Barnby (source: ShesAGalOfMineSongster)
EARLIEST DATE: 1871 (ShesAGalOfMineSongster); Tennyson's text was reportedly written 1849 and published in 1850 in "The Princes"
KEYWORDS: baby mother father sailor lullaby | wind
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
ShesAGalOfMineSongster, p. 36, "The Cradle Song" (1 text)
Heart-Songs, p. 309, "Sweet and Low (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #37253
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Tennyson's Cradle Song
NOTES [33 words]: I am amazed at how long it took to find a place for this song in the Index (added in version 7.2). It seems to me that I heard it from my father long ago. But he probably learned it from the radio. - RBW
Last updated in version 7.2
File: SGMS036B

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