Lullabies for a crooked world

Lately I've begun to teach myself lullabies from around the world, and the tragic worldview many of them seem to espouse is a reminder that they often are conversations adults--mostly mothers--have with themselves as they sing their child to sleep.   Here's the Yiddish song "Schlof main fegele", "Sleep my little bird", in which the mother begs the child to be healthy and have sweet dreams.  Now that the child is young, she says, it's still possible to sleep easy and to laugh at the world.  Click on the button if you want to hear my very simple rendition of this beautiful song. 

Schlof main fegele