If anybody ask you who I am,
Who I am, who I am,
If anybody ask you who I am,
Tell him I'm a child of God.

The little cradle rocks tonight in glory,
In glory, in glory,
The little cradle rocks tonight in glory,
The Christ child born in glory.

Peace on earth, Mary rock the cradle,
Mary rock the cradle, Mary rock the cradle,
Peace on earth, Mary rock the cradle,
The Christ child born of glory.

The Christ child passing, singing, softly,
Singing softly, singing softly,
The Christ child passing, singing softly,
The Christ child born in glory.

Don't you hear the foot on the tree top,
Foot on the tree top, foot on the tree top,
Don't you hear the foot on the tree top,
Soft like the south wind blow?

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Source: The Second Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, ed. Elizabeth Poston.

Notes:
Child of God (The little cradle rocks tonight in glory). The tune and first stanza were collected by R. Emmett Kennedy and published in Mellows (A. & C. Boni Inc., New York, 1925). 'Mellows' to the Negroes of southern Louisiana were melodies, in particular those of their devotional song. The remaining stanzas of this enchantingly imaginative evocation of Christmas were collected independently by Emma M. Backus in 'Christmas Carols in Georgia' (JAFL xii, 272, 1899).

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