Sleep Holy Babe

SLEEP HOLY BABE
Trad. Christmas hymn
Key: D

 -1    -1 3   -2*
Sleep, Ho-ly Babe, 
-5 -5 4*-4 -3   3    -2*
Up-on Thy Moth-er's breast.
 -2*  -2*  -2*  3*  -3*  4* -2* -2*
Great Lord of earth and sea and sky,
-2*  -2*  -5 -5 4*-4 -4  -3  -3
How sweet it is to  see Thee lie
-3  -3 -1  -1   -1  -1
In such a place of rest. 
-1 -1-2*-3-4 -3   1*  -1
In such  a  place of rest. 


Sleep, Holy Babe, 
Thine angels watch around;
All bending low with folded wings
Before th'Incarnate King of kings,
In rev'rent awe profound. 

Sleep, Holy Babe, 
While I with Mary gaze
In joy upon Thy face awhile,
Upon the loving Infant smile,
Which there divinely plays.

Sleep, Holy Babe, 
O take Thy brief repose!
Too quickly will Thy slumbers break,
And Thou to lengthen'd pains awake,
That death alone shall close.