This simple little setting was composed for the small rural parish church choir at Kempsford, in Gloucestershire – just down the road from Down Ampney of RVW fame. The church has a small but very nice Nicholson 2-manual tracker organ and a small keen choir devotedly led by Diana Lee-Browne.

The piece is a lullaby with quiet accompaniment, and should swing gently along without any great contrasts of dynamic or tempo, taking great care not to wake the baby!