"Twilight Time of Day" by Cynthia Shultz Williams

Cynthia Shultz Williams (1953). Grandparents from Lithuania and Romania. “Sleep is a wonderful thing – I do not do enough of! I am a night owl!” "Twilight Time of Day" she learned from Charles (Chuck) Feldman, music director, Wilshire Blvd. Temple.

“Twilight Time of Day”

Shadows lengthen into evening

And the trees begin to sway

In their evening prayer to heaven,

It’s the twilight time of day.

Evening stars come out to shine

In the sky as if to say,

“Father bless us all this night,”

It’s the twilight time of day.

Cynthia changed the end of the famous lullaby:

When the bough breaks,

The cradle will fall,

But I love my baby,

So, I’ll catch her,

And that’s all.

 “What mother would ever write a lyric about a baby falling out of a tree?!” (Cynthia)

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