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Leave Your Sleep

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Recorded
  
July 2008 - May 2009

Release date
  
9 April 2010

Genre
  
Folk music

Artist
  
Natalie Merchant

Label
  
Nonesuch Records Inc.

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Released
  
9 April 2010 (2010-04-09)

Leave Your Sleep (2010)
  
Natalie Merchant (2014)

Producers
  
Natalie Merchant, Andres Levin

Similar
  
Natalie Merchant albums, Folk music albums

Natalie merchant leave your sleep interview


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."

Contents

Natalie merchant the janitor s boy live


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

    • Songs

    1Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience5:11
    2Equestrienne4:39
    3Calico Pie2:42

    References

    Leave Your Sleep Wikipedia
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