They fell asleep - a Nunhead cemetery song

Written especially to be performed at this year's 'Nunhead & District Museum and Art Gallery', 'They fell asleep' by 'The Nunhead Cemeteries' (featuring one Neil Transpontine) is a song made up of lines from gravestones in Nunhead Cemetery:

The darling, the tender
Devoted and treasured
Who fell asleep
Who fell asleep

Beloved, departed
The deeply regretted
Who fell asleep
Who fell asleep

The fair and faithful and the bright
Alive at noon but dead at night
Who fell asleep
Who rest in peace

The angel, the mourned
Whose time was too short
Who fell asleep
Who fell asleep

True friend, only son
Life’s race well run
Who fell asleep
Who fell asleep

Left behind the sorrowing
Death divides, memory clings
They fell asleep
Their end was peace

Loved and Lovers
Daughters and Mothers
Together blessed
In peaceful rest

Who fell asleep
Who fell fell asleep

Download here: They fell asleep - The Nunhead Cemeteries