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All the Pretty Little Horses

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Tamsin Dearnley’s arrangement of the traditional African-American tune “All the Pretty Little Horses” is for solo lever or pedal harp. This haunting music has been widely recorded and performed, as befits such a beautiful tune! The lyrics are told from the point of a woman singing to a sleeping child, telling him that ‘when you wake, you shall have all the pretty little horses’. Scroll down for additional notes. This piece is also available in Dearnley’s collection Easy Lullabies from Around the World.

This piece is available as a PDF download for $2.50.

Pages to print: 2 pgs.

Duration: 2:30

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Note from the arranger

Some versions of the song contain a verse sung from the point of view of a Black slave, whose own child had been left crying in a field as she cares for her master’s children. It is unclear as to whether these lyrics originally belonged to this lullaby, or whether they are the result of two traditional songs being conflated at some point, as an identical verse also appears in the less well-known American folk song ‘Black Sheep, Black Sheep’. However, regardless of the origins of the text, this lovely tune definitely deserves to be added to your repertoire!

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