lullaby

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• They found the perfect lullaby on YouTube — “12 hours puppy sleeping music” — that prepared him for nap time.

• Fatherhood crops up in his lyrics from time to time, as in a hidden track on the “Breach” album, a lullaby addressed to his “baby bird” set to a chiming, music-box tune.

• They write that four song types are heard in every society—love songs, lullabies, healing songs, dance songs.

• He was particularly intrigued by the fourth type, lullabies.

• Listeners had little trouble telling dance songs from lullabies or healing songs, given their tempos and beats.

• But then that night, Dad played it back to me in bed, like a lullaby, my own recorded voice singing myself to sleep.

• Washington loves a lullaby—like the one about both sides deserving blame for the decline in bipartisanship.

• Gervais sings Elmo a “celebrity lullaby” and even offers him a “celebrity cup of milk.”

• It was depressing to think of going to bed in such circumstances with the yelling of an Arctic storm for a lullaby.

• A child's preference for the mother's singing is, perhaps, a half reminiscence of the soft-low tones of the lullaby.

• Twas a quiet sea, breaking, in crooning lullaby, upon the rocks below my bedroom window.

• The night winds sing her lullaby, and little children hear the music of her voice and look into her answering eyes.