TY - SOUND AU - Merchant,Natalie TI - Leave your sleep PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Nonesuch KW - Folk music KW - Popular music KW - Rock music KW - 2001-2010 N1 - Compact discs; Part I; Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience --; Equestrienne --; Calico pie --; Bleezer's ice-cream --; It makes a change --; The king of China's daughter --; The dancing bear --; The man in the wilderness --; Maggie and Milly and Molly and May --; If no one ever marries me --; The sleepy giant --; The peppery man --; The blind men and the elephant --; Part II; Adventures of Isabel --; The walloping window blind --; Topsyturvy-world --; The janitor's boy --; Griselda --; The land of Nod --; Vain and careless --; Crying, my little one --; Sweet and a lullaby --; I saw a ship a-sailing --; Autumn lullaby --; Spring and fall: to a young child --; Indian names; Performed by Natalie Merchant N2 - Leave Your Sleep contains 26 new songs recorded live in the studio. Merchant used the poems, anonymous nursery rhymes, and lullabies of 19th and 20th century British and American writers as source material and set them to original music. Among the authors included are Ogden Nash, e.e. cummings, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mervyn Peake, Eleanor Farjeon, Nathalia Crane, and Robert Graves. --Imbd.com ER -