Lullaby
Lullaby noun - A quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep.
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Villain Song: "My Lullaby" (written by Joss Whedon) is probably the most twisted and messed-up song in Disney's catalogue since Frollo's number from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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In Annie Get Your Gun the "Moonshine Lullaby" number has the line "Count your sheep, Mama's singing you to sleep."
Source: Counting Sheep - The Big Ballet trend in musicals was started by George Balanchine and "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" from On Your Toes (and revisited in the "biographical" Words and Music), which in turn might have been inspired by the Busby Berkeley Number "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935.
Source: Forgotten Trope
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Number and Lullaby. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lullaby/number
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