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Now I lay me downward to sleep is a classic children's bedtime prayer from the 18th century.

Text [edit]

Perhaps the earliest version was written by Joseph Addison in an essay appearing in The Spectator on eight March 1711. Information technology says: ^[1]

When I lay me down to Sleep,
I recommend my self to his Intendance;
when I awake, I give my cocky up to his Direction.

A subsequently version printed in The New England Primer goes:

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my Soul to proceed[;]
If I should die before I 'wake,
I pray the Lord my Soul to take.^[2]

Other versions [edit]

At present I lay me down to sleep,
I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray thee, Lord, my soul to take.
If I should live for other days,
I pray thee, Lord, to guide my means.
Amen.

Now
I lay me downwardly to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
His Beloved to guard me through the dark,
And wake me in the forenoon's light amen.^[3]

At present I lay me down to slumber,
I pray the Lord my soul to go along;
May the angels watch me through the night,
and keep me in their blessed sight.
Amen.

At present I lay me downwards to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to continue;
Delight angels lookout me through the night,
And keep me safe till morn low-cal.^[3]

At present I lay me downwardly to slumber,
I pray the Lord my soul to continue;
Angels watch me through the dark,
And wake me with the morning light.
Amen^[4]

At present I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to continue;
If I shall dice before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take,
All the angels watching over me.
Amen.

Now I lay me downwards to slumber,
I pray the Lord my soul to go on;
Guide me safely through the night,
And wake me with the forenoon calorie-free.
Amen.

Now I lay me down to slumber,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep:
Spotter and guard me through the dark,
Until You bring the morning light.
Amen.

Now I lay me down to slumber,
I pray the Lord my soul to go on;
When in the morning light I wake,
Prove me the path of love to have.
Amen.

(Additional third verse)
If I should live some other mean solar day,
I pray the Lord to guide my way.
Amen.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
For if I dice before I wake,
That'due south one less exam I have to take. [Parodic]

Information technology is sometimes combined with the "Black Paternoster", ane version of which goes:

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
Anoint the bed that I lie on.
Four corners to my bed,
Iv angels round my head;
One to scout and ane to pray
And two to bear my soul abroad.^[5]

In popular culture [edit]

• The Doors performed a part of this prayer live in New York in 1970 as an added verse to their vocal "Soul Kitchen".
• In James O'Barr's most famous comic "The Crow", the principal graphic symbol Eric Draven recites the prayer during the fight against Tom Tom.
• The prayer is used in the span of Metallica'due south hitting "Enter Sandman" from their 1991 eponymous album, with James switching to a deep ghost voice and saying the lines.
• Circle of Dust used an edited version of this prayer in the song "Prayers of a Expressionless Human" from their 1994 album of Abstraction.
• It was used in the opening lines of Megadeth'south 1991 song "Go to Hell" from the soundtrack to the 1991 moving picture Nib & Ted's Bogus Journey.
• In "Murder Was the Case", a song from his debut album Doggystyle, Snoop Dogg included a verse with this prayer.
• In Notorious B.I.Yard. song chosen "Gear up to Die" this prayer can be heard.
• American singer-songwriter, Halsey, used this prayer in the opening lines of the song "Nightmare".^[six]
• Rapper and songwriter 21 Savage used the later version of the verse form in the opening track, "Lord Forgive Me", of his album Slaughter King.
• Rapper and songwriter XXXTentacion used the verse form in his vocal "before I close my eyes", from his album ?.
• The musical, Carrie had the poem featured in the middle of the song "Evening Prayers".
• In A Nightmare on Elm Street, the poem is recited by the main character before confronting Freddy.
• In A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: Dream Primary, a rhyme based on this prayer was used to defeat Freddy
• American metalcore ring Ice 9 Kills employ another version of this rhyme in the span of their song "Communion of the Cursed", on the album Every Trick In The Book.
• Rapper Calboy also used this rhyme in the outset of his vocal "Envy Me".
• American rapper Kid Cudi features the latter two lines of the rhyme repeatedly in the hook to his song "The Prayer," on his debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi.
• The prayer is also mentioned in Margaret Atwood's novel The Testaments.
• The WWE used some lines of the prayer for the entrance theme of The Undertaker in 2000.
• The phrase "I pray the Lord my soul to go on" appears in Bob Dylan's song "Roll on John" from the anthology Tempest.
• "If I die before I wake" is followed by the line "at least in heaven I tin can skate" in the 2000 top 40 song "Heaven Is a Halfpipe" by OPM
• In the "Fathers and Sons" episode of the TV series Blue Bloods the prayer is used.
• "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep" was inscribed on the headstone of Amber Rene Hagerman in 1996 after her death.
• Keith & Kristyn Getty used the first ii lines of the poem in the kickoff verse of "Evensong".
• In an episode of the Tv serial M*A*Due south*H, Father Mulcahey recites a common children's parody of the prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep / A bag of peanuts at my feet / If I should dice before I wake / Give them to my Uncle Jake".
• In Poltergeist, Ballad Anne recites this prayer when Ballad Anne and her mother Diane coffin her pet.
• Rap group Czarface besides used the line "If I die before I wake pray the lord my soul to accept" in The Souvenir That Keeps on Giving on the 2019 album The Odd Arbiter Confronting U.s..

See also [edit]

• Christian child's prayer

References [edit]

1. ^ The Spectator Vol. I, 1729
2. ^ The New England Primer Archived 10 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine, 1750 ed., p. 23.
3. ^ ^{a b} Debbie Trafton O'Neal; Nancy Munger (1994), At present I Lay Me Downward to Sleep: Action Prayers, Poems, and Songs for Bedtime, Augsburg Books, p. vi, ISBN978-0-8066-2602-4
4. ^ James Limburg (2006), Encountering Ecclesiastes: a book for our time, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, p. 103, ISBN978-0-8028-3047-0
5. ^ I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Printing, 1951, second edn., 1997), ISBN 0-nineteen-860088-vii, pp. 357–60.
6. ^ Nightmare , retrieved 15 June 2019

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