Lullabye for a Little Boy

Once in a lullaby

For a little boy

Closing his eyes he heard

In his mother's voice

Soft and serene

a brokenness

With a love that was

so gentle and unreserved

For his struggling

Hugging him her way

Pedaling his home streets

In a playland dream

Reveling to make complete

Imaginary scenes

In rough and tumble

spars with friends

came realities

Awakening to the tough

It was such a lesson

Still in his heart an arbor grew

Harb'ring where his joy and pleasure

was undisturbed

There in the lullaby could be heard

And in the melody beyond measure

For evermore

He sings the lullaby

For his little boy

Closing his eyes he sounds

Like his mother's voice

So lives the lullaby of the little boy

Long live the lullaby of the little boy

And his boy… and his boy