

Lakota Lullaby
Lakota Lullaby. A traditional song of the Lakota Sioux people, sung to comfort children and pass down cultural values from generation to generation. Lakota communities historically kept winter counts, pictorial calendars painted on hide where a single memorable image represented each year, creating a shared visual record of history passed down through generations, and the Lakota’s deep connection to the buffalo and the open plains shaped nearly every part of traditional life, from food and clothing to the design of the tipi itself. On this page, you will find the meaning and chords.
Hum & play
A slow chant on soft syllables. The two suspended chords never quite resolve — they hang in the air like an endless vibration.
Chords — guitar & piano
A clean, printable PDF of the chords on this page. Free for members — sign in to download.
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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