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Lay Him Down

from Cardinal by The Offshore Accounts

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Miriam, go and lay your brother down
This basket-bottom needs another coat
Tomorrow he’ll be three months old
And I’ll be up tonight making sure he’ll float

Lay him down, lay him down in his bed and though he cries
The Lord watch over him until in peace he close his eyes

Miriam, help me lay your brother down
This fine child in best linens we’ll swathe
Come with me down to the riverbank
Where the princess is known to bathe

Lay him down, lay him down among the reeds and though he cries
The Lord watch over him till he be found with merciful eyes

Miriam don’t you cry
Again we send him on his way
You must believe as we send him out
He will return someday
And he’ll understand when he is grown
How you’ve loved him all along
His dear sister who laid him down
Is waiting here for him at home

Lay him down, lay him down, let her take him though he cries
The Lord watch over him and wipe the tears from our eyes

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from Cardinal, released April 20, 2014

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