Cherokee Lullaby
Cherokee Lullaby. A traditional song of the Cherokee people, passed down within families to comfort children at bedtime, reflecting the deep connection between Cherokee culture, nature, and family life. Traditional Cherokee society is organized into seven matrilineal clans, with children belonging to their mother’s clan and lineage traced through the maternal line, and storytelling has long held deep importance in Cherokee culture, with tales explaining the origins of the natural world passed down and retold across many generations. On this page, you will find the meaning, cultural context, and chords.
Hum & play
A gentle chant on soft syllables — let it rise lightly over the chords below.
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Chant — soft vocables
Chords — guitar & piano
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The story
Indigenous lullabies are part of a millennia-old oral heritage. The arrangement presented here is an original reworking, intended as a respectful tribute to the beauty and spirituality of these cultures.
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- A traditional song of an Indigenous people. Songs like this belong to their communities, and we share it with respect.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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