Golden Slumbers
Posted in Folk Music, Going to Sleep, Choral on Nov 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Those of you who are English and of a certain age will understand me instinctively when I mention ‘Singing Together’. It was a regular BBC broadcast for schools during the 1950s. Those of us brought up on it can, at the drop of a hat, sing word perfect such classic English folksongs as ‘The British Grenadiers’, ‘The Keel Row’, The Keeper Did A’Hunting Go’, ‘Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron’ and this one - ’Golden Slumbers’ - sung to us at Infant School in the early afternoon as we were got tucked up for our afternoon sleep - and the teachers’ tea break.
Here it is sung by the Cambridge Singers conducted by John Rutter.
