<Li> OPM uses a variation of the prayer on their 2000 album Menace to Sobriety for "Heaven Is A Halfpipe" as "If I die before I wake at least in heaven I can skate" </Li> <Li> Pirates of the Mississippi uses a variation of the prayer on their song "Feed Jake," a country hit in 1991 . During the first part of each chorus--as "Now I lay me down to sleep / I pray the Lord my soul to keep / If I die before I wake / Feed Jake, he's been a good dog"--an elderly man express hope that if something should happen to him and his dog (the titular Jake) survives him, Jake will be taken care of . </Li> <Li> Sweethearts of the Rodeo use the prayer in the bridge of their song "Midnight Girl / Sunset Town," a country hit in 1987, to express a young woman's restlessness of living in a small, backroads town with old - fashioned values ("Now I lay me down to sleep / I pray the Lord my soul to keep / If I should die' fore the world turns' round / Lord, don't leave me in this one horse town..."). </Li> <Li> In The Simpsons episode "Lisa's First Word," a 3 - year - old Bart goes to bed in a new - but - poorly designed clown bed created by Bart's father, Homer . As a frightened Bart tries to go to sleep, he imagines the headboard--one that because of its poor design resembles an evil clown--coming to life and with evil cackling reciting the line, "If you should die before you wake...". </Li>

Dear lord as i lay down to sleep