| The Milky Way upon the heavens
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| Is twinkling just for you
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| And Mr. Moon he came by
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| To say goodnight to you
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| I’ll sing for you I’ll sing for mother
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| We’re praying for the world
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| And for the people everywhere
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| Gonna show them all we care
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| Oh my sleeping child the world’s so wild
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| But you’ve built your own paradise
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| That’s one reason why I’ll cover you sleeping child
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| If all the people around the world
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| They had a mind like yours
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| We’d have no fighting and no wars
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| There would be lasting peace on Earth
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| If all the kings and all the leaders
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| Could see you here this way
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| They would hold the Earth in their arms
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| They would learn to watch you play
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| Oh my sleeping child the world’s so wild
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| But you’ve built your own paradise
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| That’s one reason why I’ll cover you sleeping child
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| I’m gonna cover my sleeping child
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| Keep you away from the world so wide |