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== [[Film]] ==
* Used rather ominously, though appropriately, in ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]''.
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{{quote|Chorus Children: Now I lay me down to sleep. The Master of Dreams my soul will keep. In the reflection by my side...
Alice Johnson: Evil will see itself, and it shall die! }}
* ''[[Little Miss Marker]]'' (1934). Sorrowful Jones (Adolphe Menjou) teaches the rhyme to Marthy Jane ([[Shirley Temple]]) before she goes to bed.
* Used in the trailer for ''My Soul To Take''. It's also probably in the movie.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Incarnations of Immortality|On a Pale Horse]]'', Death decides to read his mail against the advice of his household staff, and one of the letters is from a girl who is afraid that she'll die in her sleep because her mother makes her recite this prayer before going to bed.
* Then there's the Selfish Kid's Prayer by [[Shel Silverstein]]:
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So no other kids can use 'em... }}
* ''[[Discworld]]''
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* In [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''Homecoming'' series, the first half of the fourth book (dealing with a crisis during an interstellar voyage with most of the characters in [[Suspended Animation]]) is titled ''If I Should Wake Before I Die''.
* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', the second verse of Marvin's lullaby starts with this line.
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How I hate the night }}
== [[Live
* Parodied by, of all people, Father Mulcahy in ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'':
{{quote|Now I lay me down to sleep,
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{{quote|If I should die before I wake, pray no one my soul to take
And if I wake before I die, rescue me with your smile. }}
* Said word-for-word in [[Metallica]]'s "Enter Sandman". In that case, it's clearly more of a [[Ironic Nursery Rhyme]], as weird things keep happening, in a [[Nightmare On Elm Street]] kind of way. Or were simply [[Occam's Razor|nightmares]].
* Pirates of the Mississipi, "Feed Jake"
{{quote|Now I lay me down to sleep
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Me no happy 'til me fed." }}
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Bill Cosby]], in his "Cool Covers" routine from the ''Revenge'' album, describes how inappropriate it is to teach this prayer to a young child who's already scared to go to bed due to [[Things That Go Bump in the Night|bedroom closet monsters]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcsPhK9pEYE Tim Hawkins mentioned this too.]
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