Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep (2010)
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Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep
Disc 1 — Leave Your Supper
1. "Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience" 5:10
2. "Equestrienne" 4:38
3. "Calico Pie" 2:41
4. "Bleezer's Ice-Cream" 5:16
5. "It Makes a Change" 3:30
6. "The King of China's Daughter" 2:39
7. "The Dancing Bear" 5:37
8. "The Man in the Wilderness" 3:44
9. "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May" 4:06
10. "If No One Ever Marries Me" 2:21
11. "The Sleepy Giant" 3:19
12. "The Peppery Man" 5:05
13. "The Blind Men and the Elephant" 5:32
Disc 2 — Leave Your Sleep
1. "Adventures of Isabel" 3:23
2. "The Walloping Window Blind" 4:16
3. "Topsyturvey-World" 5:08
4. "The Janitor's Boy" 3:52
5. "Griselda" 5:50
6. "The Land of Nod" 4:04
7. "Vain and Careless" 4:42
8. "Crying, My Little One" 2:26
9. "Sweet and a Lullaby" 3:04
10. "I Saw a Ship A-Sailing" 2:12
11. "Autumn Lullaby" 3:21
12. "Spring and Fall: to a Young Child" 3:03
13. "Indian Names" 5:52
The sleeve notes credit inspiration for the songs of this album as follows:
Adventures of Isabel – Ogden Nash
Autumn Lullaby – Anonymous
Bleezer's Ice-Cream – Jack Prelutsky
Calico Pie – Edward Lear
Crying, My Little One – Christina Rossetti
If No One Ever Marries Me – Laurence Alma-Tadema
Indian Names – Lydia Huntley Sigourney
I Saw a Ship A-Sailing – Anonymous
It Makes a Change – Mervyn Peake
Equestrienne – Rachel Field
Griselda – Eleanor Farjeon
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May – E. E. Cummings
Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience – Charles Causley
Spring and Fall – Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sweet and a Lullaby – Anonymous
The Blindmen and the Elephant – John Godfrey Saxe
The Dancing Bear – Albert Paine
The Janitor's Boy – Nathalia Crane
The King of China's Daughter – Anonymous
The Land of Nod – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Man in the Wilderness – Anonymous
The Peppery Man – Arthur Macy
The Sleepy Giant – Charles E. Carryl
The Walloping Window Blind – Charles E. Carryl
Topsyturvey-World – William Brighty Rands
Vain and Careless – Robert Graves
Leave Your Sleep is the 5th studio album by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant. Produced by Merchant and Andres Levin, the double concept album is "a project about childhood" and is a collection of music adapted from 19th and 20th century British and American poetry about childhood. BBC Music describes it as "200 years of lyrical and musical history, washing beautifully by."
