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Leave Your Sleep is a double concept album by Natalie Merchant and is her fifth solo album. The album is "a project about childhood" and is a collection of music adapted from 19th and 20th century British and American poetry about childhood. BBC Music describes it as "200 years of lyrical and musical history, washing beautifully by."
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Your Sleep Video
Inspiration
The sleeve notes credit inspiration for the songs of this album as follows:
- Adventures of Isabel - Ogden Nash
- Autumn Lullaby - Anonymous
- Bleezer's Ice-Cream - Jack Prelutsky
- Calico Pie - Edward Lear
- Crying, My Little One - Christina Rossetti
- If No One Ever Marries Me - Laurence Alma-Tadema
- Indian Names - Lydia Huntley Sigourney
- I Saw a Ship A-Sailing - Anonymous
- It Makes a Change - Mervyn Peake
- Equestrienne - Rachel Field
- Griselda - Eleanor Farjeon
- Maggie and Milly and Molly and May - E. E. Cummings
- Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience - Charles Causley
- Spring and Fall - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Sweet and a Lullaby - Anonymous
- The Blindmen and the Elephant - John Godfrey Saxe
- The Dancing Bear - Albert Paine
- The Janitor's Boy - Nathalia Crane
- The King of China's Daughter - Anonymous
- The Land of Nod - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Man in the Wilderness - Anonymous
- The Peppery Man - Arthur Macy
- The Sleepy Giant - Charles E. Carryl
- The Walloping Window Blind - Charles E. Carryl
- Topsyturvey-World - William Brighty Rands
- Vain and Careless - Robert Graves
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