Baby Jesus, please don't cry.
Now let me wipe the tears from your eyes.
You cry as though your heart would break
Please don't spend your first night awake.
Shepherds while you mean no harm
They long to hold you in their arms
To cradle as they might their lambs
But you're too small to understand.
Cattle lowing long to sing
A lullaby to sooth their king.
A cry so full of pain and fright
That pierces through the lonely night.
Baby Jesus, please don't cry.
Now let me wipe the tears from your eyes.
Baby Jesus, please don't weep.
For it's time that time for you to sleep.
Baby sleeping in the hay
The Son of God who's come to save.
Light the only way that's true
Who'll die upon a cross for you.
Baby Jesus please don't weep.
It's night and time for you to sleep.
The stars that shine don't match the glow
With all the ones you'll come to know.