This is one of the more popular selections from Joseph-Marie Canteloube's arrangements of French folk music for voice and orchestra. In the langue d'oc in which Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne are sung, "Brezairola" simply means lullaby. This is the cradle song of a mother more fatigued than her child, imploring sleep to fall upon her restless baby. She does this for two full verses, each of a different melodic contour over languid, sighing figures from the woodwinds and muted solo strings. The child finally falls asleep in the third verse, musically a reprise of the first but with a more string-dominated orchestration, and the mother herself seems to drift off with a weary, relieved "Ah!"

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