Name: As You Go to Sleep Tonight
Duration: P00H04M03S
Description: Even monsters can be loving parents. What sort of lullaby does a monster sing to his offspring when he knows the hunters are coming?

As You Go to Sleep Tonight

from Bumblebees in Marshmallow Sauce by Mr. Beany's Bitty Band

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Even monsters can be loving parents. What sort of lullaby does a monster sing to his offspring when he knows the hunters are coming?

lyrics

[chorus]
As you go to sleep tonight.
One thing that I wish.
Keep your head under the sheets
Do not stir one bit.

[v1]
The things you see might not be true
The things you hear are prob'ly false
I am not the monster here.
I am just your pa.

[chorus]

[v2]
Keep your ears out for the things.
That whisper as you sleep.
They're not the things they say they are
They don't like you or me.

[chorus]

[v3]
If you hear your mother cry.
Stay safe and do not fear.
She'll likely survive 'till morn but
if they see you'll dis`ppear.

[chorus]

[v4]
The voices that are gathered now
will do your old man harm.
They'll rend me and cast me about
spreading my bones quite far.

[chorus]

[v5]
They want to do this harm to me.
So I must turn the screw.
As they come to take me out
I'll end it all with just a flick.

[chorus]

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from Bumblebees in Marshmallow Sauce, released June 16, 2018

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Mr. Beany's Bitty Band

We're a one-person band fronted by a human who self-describes as a mad artist. We invented the "crapcapella" genre, and remain a proponent, though we now support the term "folk acapella" as well. We love improvised music as well as sheet music.

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