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Winkum Winkum
All Instruments: Douglas Milne, Lead Vocals: Helen Raw
From the TwinkleTrax album "Lullabies - 20 Classic Bedtime Songs And Lullabies"
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Winkum, Winkum, shut your eyes,
Sweet my baby's lullaby,
For the dews are falling soft,
Lights are flick'ring up aloft;
And the moonlight's peeping over,
Yonder hilltop capped with clover.
Chickens long have gone to rest,
Birds lie snug within their nest,
And my birdie soon will be,
Sleeping like a chicadee;
For with only half a try
Winkum, Winkum, shut your eye.
Winkum, Winkum, shut your eyes,
Sweet my baby's lullaby,
For the dews are falling soft,
Lights are flick'ring up aloft;
And the moonlight's peeping over,
Yonder hilltop capped with clover.
Sweet my baby's lullaby,
For the dews are falling soft,
Lights are flick'ring up aloft;
And the moonlight's peeping over,
Yonder hilltop capped with clover.
Chickens long have gone to rest,
Birds lie snug within their nest,
And my birdie soon will be,
Sleeping like a chicadee;
For with only half a try
Winkum, Winkum, shut your eye.
Winkum, Winkum, shut your eyes,
Sweet my baby's lullaby,
For the dews are falling soft,
Lights are flick'ring up aloft;
And the moonlight's peeping over,
Yonder hilltop capped with clover.
The origins of this lullaby are unknown.
The second verse refers to a chickadee, a bird of the tit family indigenous to Canada, Alaska and the northern United States, which suggests that the song also originated in those areas.
Origins text ©2011 TwinkleTrax Children's Songs.