Radio Lullaby

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 7, 29 August 1930, Page 5

Radio Lullaby

(CHILDREN who listened-in to the special children’s concert broadeast during the recent Wellington Radio Exhibition will probably remember hearing a song called "A Radio Lullaby." This is now being adopted as a closing song by both children and adults who entertain from 2YA during the children’s session. School parties which appear before the microphone from time to time are also learning it. The music was composed by Mr. George MacKay, a well-known Wellington pianist and accompanist, while the words were written by Mr. John Ball, of the R.B.C. The latter are particularly appropriate, and the whole makes an appealing farewell song. Mr, Ball

has also written a 2YA foxtrot, which may be published at a future date. Soon will the shadows close down on the day, Come, mother’s darling, cease from your play, Over the air Radio Fairies come dancing, Daintily tripping to music entrancing, To join the glad circle of dear 2VA CHORUS. Come, let them woo you to sleep, Baby Mine,

W 00 you, sweet loved one, to slumber sublime. Radio Fairies for you sweetly sing Maoriland melodies fit for a king, To waft you, my baby, to dreamland divine. CHORUS. Sweet Fairy voices, so tender and true, Blended in lullaby, darling for you; Sleep through the night to the dawn of new day, Mother is with you, and dear 2V A, While angels are watching from God's sky so blue.

CHORUSSleepy Time, Baby Mine, Sleepy Time, Baby Mine.