The Fox and the Lock (A Lullaby)

“Cock-a-doodle-do!” crows the cock.

Granny yawns: “It is two o’clock!”

Baby sleeps. The night is long.

Granny starts to sing a song:

“In a shed there is an ox

Round the shed there walks a fox.

On the door he sees a lock,

He cannot enter — what a shock!

Fox is hungry; fox is cross,

Fox is really at a loss.

Foxy hears and smells the cock,

But he cannot break the lock.”

Baby sleeps. The night is long.

Granny, rocking, sings a song.