The first line and this memory of mine

Tony Funderburk · Mar 31, 2026

The first line of the song is all it takes. Sleep my love, and peace attend thee.

Yeah, just those 7 words in the first line.

And, immediately, my time travel machine transports me back to the eighth grade. And when I hear the rest of the first verse, I see the 13 and 14 year old version of me. Working, for hours and hours. And even days and weeks on one single song. This one.

Sleep my child and peace attend thee,

All through the night

Guardian angels God will send thee,

All through the night

Soft the drowsy hours are creeping,

Hill and dale in slumber sleeping

I, my loved ones’ watch…