[Intro]
    x3

[Verse 1]
            
 The milky way

         
 upon the heav

ens
             
Is twinkling j

        
ust for you
           
And mr. Moon h

      
e came by
            
To say goodnig

       
ht to you

             
 I'll sing for

 
 you 
             
 I'll sing for

 
 mother
             
We're praying 

        
for the world
            
And for the pe

          
ople everywher

e
            
Gonna show the

          
m all we care

[Chorus]     
             
Oh my sleeping

           
 child the wor

         
ld's so wild
             
But you've bui

           
lt your own pa

   
radise
             
That's one rea

             
son why I'll c

           
over you sleep

             
ing child

[Verse 2]
            
If all the peo

          
ple around the

 world
            
They had a min

        
d like yours
            
We'd have no f

            
ighting and no

 
 wars
              
There would be

            
 lasting peace

     
 on earth

            
If all the kin

             
gs and all the

 
 leaders
             
Could see you 

          
here this way
             
They would hol

           
d the earth in

       
 their arms
            
They would lea

              
rn to watch yo

   
u play

[Chorus]
             
Oh my sleeping

           
 child the wor

        
ld's so wild
             
But you've bui

           
lt your own pa

    
radise
             
That's one rea

             
son why I'll c

           
over you sleep

           
ing chiiild   

   
   (Cover my c

hild)

          
I'm gonna cove

r my
             
Sleeping child

           
           (Ke

           
ep you away)
            
Keep you away 

         
from the world

 so wild
          
(Keep you away

 from the worl

d)
         
(Away from the

 
 world so wild

)

[Fill]
   

[Chorus]
             
Oh my sleeping

           
 child the wor

         
ld's so wild
             
But you've bui

           
lt your own pa

   
radise
             
That's one rea

             
son why I'll c

           
over you sleep

    
ing child
              
(You've built 

           
your own, the 

  
paradise)

             
Oh my sleeping

           
 child the wor

         
ld's so wild
             
But you've bui

           
lt your own pa

   
radise
             
That's one rea

             
son why I'll c

           
over you sleep

            
ing child