Backwards turn backwards
Oh time in your flight
Make me a child again
Just for tonight
And mother come back from your echo-less shore
And hold me again to your heart as of yore
Sooth from my body the burdens of care
And run your hand softly over my hair
And over my slumber your loving watch keep
Oh mother come back and rock me to sleep
(Rock me to sleep)
Mother dear mother the years have been long
Since I last heard you sing your lullaby song
And as I look back the time just [?]
The [?] years have been awfully [?]
I have been waiting and I've been watching for you
Hoping that one day we could start like new
And then when we meet I shall nevermore weep
For oh mother once again you can rock me to sleep
(Rock me to sleep)
(Rock me to sleep)
(Rock me to sleep)
