Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Secret Garden & Saoirse
Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Secret Garden & Jan Werner
Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Secret Garden
The lyrics of Sleepsong came to Brendan Graham on the night before his youngest daughter Alana was to leave Ireland for Australia in 2004: ‘Sitting at her bedside, as I did so often when she was a child, the years seemed to roll away and I was back there in the past, telling her stories and singing...
Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay lai-lay
Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay
Lay down your head and I'll sing you a lullaby
Back to the years of loo-li lai-lay
And I'll sing you to sleep and I'll sing you tomorrow
Bless you with love for the road that you go
May you sail fair to the far fields of fortune
With diamonds and pearls at your head and your feet
And may you need never to banish misfortune
May you find kindness in all that you meet
May there always be angels to watch over you
To guide you each step of the way
To guard you and keep you safe from all harm
Loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay
May you bring love and may you bring happiness
Be loved in return to the end of your days
Now fall off to sleep, I'm not meaning to keep you
I'll just sit for a while and sing loo-li, lai-lay
May there always be angels to watch over you
To guide you each step of the way
To guard you and keep you safe from all harm
Loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay
Loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay
(Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay)
(Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay)
(Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay)
(Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay)
(Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay)
Loo-li, lai-lay...
Sleepsong was written by Brendan Graham & Rolf Løvland.