Kay Black and Maresa Black

Kay Black (1955), Maresa Black (1990). Songs are learned in Girl Scouts. (I Gave My Love a Cherry, Braves, Hushabye). Kay: Sleep is a little twitching and foggy. It comes in a blue color.  Before falling asleep I think of my breathing, happy thoughts, about my daughter Maresa, I think of pictures, they turn into circular patterns.”

"The Riddle Song," also known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry" is an English folk song, apparently a lullaby, which was carried by settlers to the American Appalachians."

I Gave My Love a Cherry

I gave my love a cherry without a stone (wikipedia)
I gave my love a chicken without a bone
I gave my love a ring that had no end
I gave my love a baby with no crying

How can there be a cherry that has no stone?
How can there be a chicken that has no bone?
How can there be a ring that has no end?
How can there be a baby with no crying?

A cherry when it's blooming it has no stone
A chicken when it's pipping, it has no bone
A ring while it's rolling, it has no end
A baby when it's sleeping, has no crying"

Braves

Braves, they are riding,

They are riding cross the sky.

Braves, they are riding

As their Pawnee ponies fly.

Steeds, they are silver,

They are silver as the moon,

Soon in the darkness,

In the distance vanish soon.

Swift o'er the heavens,

O'er the heavens, never slow,

Soon, 'ere the dawning,

O'er the mountains they must go.

So come little warrior,

Squaw is calling, Chief is nigh,

Soon while you're dreaming,

They will watch you from the sky.

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