VESPERS
A.
Droops on
the little hands little gold head.
Hush! Hush!
Whisper who dares!
Solo
1: God bless Mummy. I know that’s right.
Wasn’t it fun in the bath
tonight?
The cold’s so cold, and the hot’s so hot
Oh, God bless Daddy—I quite
forgot.
If I open my fingers a little
bit more
I can see Nanny’s
dressing-gown hanging on the door.
It’s a beautiful blue, but it
hasn’t a hood
Oh, God bless Nanny and make
her good.
Mine has a hood, and I lie in
bed,
And pull the hood right over
my head,
And I shut my eyes, and I
curl up small
And nobody knows that I’m
there at all.
Oh, Thank
you, God, for a lovely day.
And what was the other I had
to say?
I said “Bless Daddy,” so what
can it be?
Oh! Now, I remember it. God bless me.
All: Little Boy kneels at the foot of
the bed,
Droops on
the little hands little gold head.
Hush! Hush!
Whisper who dares!