![Selections from the Album "Leave Your Sleep" cover art](http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-albums-coverart/albums/coverart/merchant-leave-your-sleep-selections.jpg "Selections from the Album "Leave Your Sleep"")
Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience | 5:11 |
| 2 | The Man in the Wilderness | 3:45 |
| 3 | Equestrienne | 4:39 |
| 4 | The Dancing Bear | 5:38 |
| 5 | Calico Pie | 2:42 |
| 6 | The Janitor's Boy | 3:52 |
| 7 | The Peppery Man | 5:06 |
| 8 | Topsyturvey-World | 5:10 |
| 9 | Bleezer's Ice-Cream | 5:17 |
| 10 | It Makes a Change | 3:31 |
| 11 | Adventures of Isabel | 3:26 |
| 12 | The King of China's Daughter | 2:39 |
| 13 | The Sleepy Giant | 3:20 |
| 14 | If No One Ever Marries Me | 2:22 |
| 15 | maggie and milly and molly and may | 4:09 |
| 16 | Spring and Fall: to a young child | 3:07 |
News & Reviews
- Friday, November 4, 2011
Natalie Merchant's "Leave Your Sleep" to Be Basis of 92Y Musical Program for NYC Public School Children
Natalie Merchant's 2010 Nonesuch debut album, Leave Your Sleep, will be the basis for a curriculum unit taught to 3,500 New York City public school children in grades K-3 this fall. On the album, Merchant adapts the works of such poets as Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and Robert Graves into a musically kaleidoscopic set of new songs. She joins the Nashville Symphony in concert on November 13 and joins Levon Helm and others on November 18 in upstate New York for a concert to benefit those hit by Tropical Storm Irene.
- Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Natalie Merchant to Perform Concerts to Benefit Breast Cancer Research; Honored As NY Public Library Lion
Natalie Merchant will perform two shows in upstate New York next month as part of Radio Woodstock's 13th annual Pink October Fundraiser, benefiting breast cancer research at the Dyson Center for Cancer Care at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie. Merchant will also join the Nashville Symphony in concert in November and will be honored as a 2011 New York Public Library Lion, along with Jonathan Franzen, Ian McEwan, Tony Kushner, Stacy Schiff, and Isabel Wilkerson.
About this Album
This single disc includes selections from Leave Your Sleep, Natalie Merchant's double-disc Nonesuch debut, on which she adapts the works of such poets as Ogden Nash, Edward Lear, and E.E. Cummings into a musically kaleidoscopic set of new songs, working with folk, jazz, reggae, and R&B players as well as gorgeously arranged chamber ensembles.
