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'''Sleep My Baby Dear''' is a lullaby on [[Roshar]].
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'''"Sleep My Baby Dear"''' is a lullaby on [[Roshar]].
 
   
[[Lin Davar]] sang the lullaby to [[Shallan]] when she was a child, especially when she was frightened or woke up screaming in the night.{{book ref|sa2|10}}{{book ref|sa2|73}} He held her and sang the lullaby on the night she was forced to kill [[Shallan's mother|her mother]].{{book ref|sa2|10}} Shallan then sang it to her father while she strangled him several years later.{{book ref|sa2|73}} The lullaby is prominent in Shallan's traumatic memories of these events.{{book ref|sa2|10}}{{book ref|sa3|82}}
 
 
== Lyrics ==
 
 
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|Now go to sleep in chasms deep, with darkness all around you
 
Though rock and dread may be your bed, so sleep my baby dear<br />
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Now go to sleep in chasms deep, with darkness all around you<br>
Now comes the storm, but you’ll be warm, the wind will rock your basket<br />
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Though rock and dread may be your bed, so sleep my baby dear<br>
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Now comes the storm, but you’ll be warm, the wind will rock your basket<br>
The crystals fine will glow sublime, so sleep my baby dear<br />
 
And with a song, it won’t be long, you’ll sleep my baby dear<br />
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The crystals fine will glow sublime, so sleep my baby dear<br>
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And with a song, it won’t be long, you’ll sleep my baby dear<br>
|As sung by [[Lin Davar]]{{book ref|sa2|10}}
 
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|the words
 
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It was sung to [[Shallan]] by her parents during her childhood.{{book ref|sa2|10}} Her father sang this to her the night she was forced to killed her mother and she sang it to her father as she strangled him.
   
 
== Fan Renditions ==
 
== Fan Renditions ==
 
* [https://soundcloud.com/vihartvihart/sleep-my-baby-dear-shallans-lullaby-from-words-of-radiance-by-brandon-sanderson Vi Hart's rendition]
 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j43upHCHRdU Alex Crandall's rendition]
 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j43upHCHRdU Alex Crandall's rendition]
* [https://www.theblackpiper.com The Black Piper] did an official rendition on their album ''Kaladin'', fully orchestrating Alex Crandall's version
 
* A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCkCPeDPdc music box arrangement] of Alex Crandall's version by {{a|Treefin}}
 
* [https://soundcloud.com/vihartvihart/sleep-my-baby-dear-shallans-lullaby-from-words-of-radiance-by-brandon-sanderson Vi Hart's rendition]
 
* [https://soundcloud.com/oneporpoise/shallans-lullaby OnePorpoise's rendition]
 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI19oz2_s74 The Darkeyed Musician's rendition]
 
   
 
== Notes ==
 
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