I learned this song 22 years ago and would sing it to my daughter. She is special needs and to this day when she’s sick or in the hospital she always ask me to sing her this song❤️

Her voice, like her appearance, personality and talent, are absolutely breath-taking. I truly wish she'd put out an album, I'd snatch it up in a second!

You can hear her smiling as she sings of her joy and love for her child....beautiful...not many singers can elicit this kind of a responce...

Meryl’s voice is so stunning beautiful!

This has been one of my favorite songs since I bought 'For Our Children' for MY children. There are some lovely versions of this song, but I love this one best, I think, for it's simplicity and warmth. There is such a genuine feeling about it; listening to it is like being rocked by a loving mother. It has taken up permanent residence in my heart.

What a grace in her voice... Such a icon she is.

Her voice is as precious as she is

She just has the voice of an angel! I just cried! This si so beautiful♥ 😭❤❤❤

When my children were babies my husband ordered this on cassette along with other heart filled songs for kids it takes me back to that time almost thirty years now I’m a nanny it sure makes me weep every time thank you Meryl Streep for such a beautiful song. For The Children’s Foundation.

Only missing the baby! Found myself swaying a little one to sleep even though my baby is nearly 50 yrs old. Thanks so much for sharing.

Chose to play this while burying my miscarried baby … wrapped in velvet inside a heart-shaped box, then planted beneath a crepe myrtle tree. Still cry every time I hear Meryl’s exquisite voice sing this poignant song.

i wish you were my mother. I listen to this song cause I was never loved as a child. i wish you would have become middle class in your 30s and had adopted me. You probably would have given me a good life. you are a great actor, and you have a beautiful voice!!! I even wish your husband was my father. I never met mine.

Precious. This song is so sweet, and Meryl's beautiful voice makes it even better. I love her, she is so talented. Woman is flawless.

I want to hear the take she did crying. I can’t get through it without tearing up. Beautiful. I miss my kids.

Love the song SO MUCH! Sing it all the time. So peaceful and beautiful.

What a lovely song sung by the lovely Meryl Streep! I'm listeing to it every night before falling asleep ;)

She has a sweet and warm voice like only a mother can have!

meryl gives me goosebumps whenever i hear her sing. she's just out of this world wonderful :)

Wow, I had no idea the Meryl, Ms. Streep, could sing! She has a soothing speaking voice and her singing is frighteningly amazing.

Meryl's voice is so gentle and amazing

This song plays every night for my son to fall asleep to. He calls it "our song".

never realised meryl could sing like this! she has a natural talent and sings like an angel

sound like we all need therapy session after listening to this. we love our parents and long for their love, but they're the ones that miss us up the most. that's why I am scared to become a mother.

I had a cassette with this song on it when I was little, and I think Meryl sang it. It was my favorite song on the type.

I love this version. Brings me back memories when I had to sing this for an exam (in Irish)

I've heard many versions of this song to me this tops them all

This song makes me feel so strange. Always has. My dad bought me the cassette tape of For Our Children when I was about 7, I guess, and... This one was my favorite. It always seemed so haunting and mysterious. When I was in 2nd grade, my friend and I coreographed our own ballet to it for a talent show; I still remember that. But now, 23 years later, all of that seems like another life. I lost my old home, and both my parents are gone now; I've not seen the girl I did the talent show with since childhood. This song has a painful quality to it now. Even as a child, it held a kind of nostalgia for me, because I wouldn't always be little. Still, it's one more thing that reminds me that I'm still the same person I was then.

there is something so unique about her voice! i love it!!! I LOVE Meryl!!!!!! so much!!!!! thank you!!!

oh my gooooooooood!! She sings like an angel

Wow she has an amazingly beautiful voice! ♡ Meryl, you are my favourite actress(/actor) and I love your personality and joie de vivre ♡ I wish you are a person of my family. :)

I listen to this every time like it's the first time!

Absolutely beautiful!!! I love you Meryl!!!

She is something else❤

I’ve been looking all over for this song! When I was little I had this album For Our Children and would listen to it all the time. My mom would play this song for me on the radio/cd player I had in my room when I had trouble going to sleep.

How lovely!

Makes me feell, like crying ......simply amazing

So lovely!

I want to cry now.

I too had this album growing up and this song was then and is now spectacular. Just hauntingly beautiful. Thank you for posting this.

omg this is amazing. i absolutely love her voice.

She does this so well - it's breathtaking=)

One of my favorite songs.

just perfect

Beautiful!!

OMG Meryl sings like an angel her voice, WOW. Iwish she would put out her songs on CD. The verse in the song is And lyin there o, my child, my joy

This is too beautiful, I love her angel voice. 😭♥️

Ms Streep has such a beautiful voice for this lovely song and poem from Ireland, written by Herbert Hughes (who collected the original tune) and Soesamh Mac Cathmhaoil (lyrics) from ‘Songs of Uladh’ (1904). One of Meryl Streep’s daughters, Grace Gummer, has the role of Arabella Sours in the film ‘The Homesman’ as a very young married woman living with her equally young husband in the newly expanding territories of middle America. One of three women who’ve lost control of their minds, she was to be taken back east to her family after having lost her mind due to the loneliness and overbearing hardships of homesteading. The added burden of trying to deal with the deaths of their young children pushes her over the edge, and her mental breakdown culminates when she throws her naked, crying newborn into a hole in the outhouse. Gummer capably translates these events to screen in a gripping, moving, (and shocking) way. Grace Gummer is as hauntingly elegant on screen as her talented mother Meryl, who also has a cameo role in the film which boasts an exceptional all-star lineup. Adapted for the screen from Glendon Swarthout’s novel, Tommy Lee Jones not only wrote the screenplay but directed and starred in his film company’s production. In the 1989 miniseries ‘Lonesome Dove,’ immigrant Irishman Allen O’Brien tries to sing this song, ‘Gartan Mother’s Lullaby’ over the newly dug grave of his younger brother Sean, who’d died from too many snakebites as he was crossing the river at the beginning of the cattle drive. “I wish I could’ve finished it,” Allen tearfully said to Newt, “ ‘twas his favorite.”

love Meryl Streep!! It's beautiful!

very good voice meryl !!!!

Wow, I luv it

Thank you so much for posting this....I've been searching for this song. So hauntingly beautiful and reminds me of my children when they were little.

Awesome. I was in a chorus group and we did that in the last springg concert in May. Great job. Soooo Soothin. Great twilight song.

whatta voice amazing!

Reminds me of Sophie's choice

I want to her voice! :) It's very beautiful, she is really good singer.. I'm going to cry now.. This song is very nice and sad..

thanks a lot! im one of meryl fans ..love her so much!

Wish she was my mother and i was young

I used to sing this in choir in middle school and now I sing it to my babies at bed time 🥰

Mmm...lovely!

Por Dios, Que Voz!!!! I Love You Meryl!!! Oh My God!!!! What Voice!!!! i use this song to Relaxme and Study.... Argentina Meryl you're simply the BEST!!! Keeses!!!

It's like she is singing it from the heavens to us, sitting on a cloud, smiling, being illuminated by the sun shining behind her.😊

omg! great voice!! makes me relax & sleepy...:-)

If you all haven't, listen to her "Two Little Sisters" with Carly Simon.

❤️❤️ beautiful!

I think it's from an album called Disney's "For Our Children." Lots of celebs singing children's songs. Might be from the second album. There were two.

oooohh :O simply beautiful

sleep well tonight. Christmas Day is almost here Morning time is almost here

i grew up with this from For Our Children cd but my mom also would sing it though alot slower

Me too I was a baby my mom used to sing to me

Im from near Gartan!!

like this version better than the one i'm singing tomorrow at the music festival for falkirk council :)

Wow.

Omg I had no idea Meryl Streep could sing this good. She sounds more casually lullabyish. Like she's actually singing her her child

👌🏼

ahh, to be sang a lullaby by Miranda Priestly. Will definitely pitch this song for our comic project

Have to do this for my exams :)

@MiamiS1lvio WOWWWWW. I know. Everytime I think of the people who lost their lives in 9/11 it just makes me so sad. I mean, that was a horrible day. :( :(

below i posted the exact lyrics minus a few words at the end. there are different versions though with just a few word changed. :D

....and now go see " Florence Foster Jenkins" ....again and again.You've got to be really good ,I mean REALLY GOOD to sing that badly.She's got my vote for the Oscar.

What is this from? I love it!

Not a bad effort at singing this ancient Irish song - the few Gaelic words she attemps are a little bit iffy, but she gives it a good shot - maith an cailin !

Wow. I've never heard this song before. Is it from a movie?

Do you have an mp3 of this you can share ? I have looked everywhere to get it and this is the first I've seen of it.

I agree 100%, Nobody can touch Lukey, still a nice version tho

I am very sorry that when I have children they do not understand the lyrics, because it is not Lithuanian. Very nice song, sounds very nice...

@lloydscashcorpguide omduckies!!! my group did this song when i was in 8th grade

Do you know where may I download it from? I tried to buy CDs in amazon, but is only for U.S.A. I live in other countr. Thanks

sleep my child for the red bee hums the silent twilight falls evol from the gray rock comes to wrap te world in thrawl o lyan van o my child my joy my love and hearts desire the cricket sings you a lullaby beside the dyin' fire dusk has come and the green mans thorn is writhed in rings of fog sheevra sails his boat till morn along the starry bog o lyan van o the paleing moon hath brimmed her cusp in dew and weeps to hear this sad sleep tune i sing my love to you a lyan van o my

What is this from? It is from tv?

It’s an Irish lullaby....

almost as good as the Corrie's version

It's not perfect... it's better. Sue

she is a an institution.

Go back to cutting avocados.