<P> It is sometimes combined with the "Black Paternoster", one version of which goes: </P> <P> Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Bless the bed that I lie on . Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away . </P> <Ul> <Li> Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (organization) is a 501 (c) (3) not - for - profit organization that offers complimentary remembrance photography to families grieving after a stillbirth or the death of an infant . </Li> <Li> If I Die Before I Wake is the title of a 1938 crime novel written by Sherwood King which served as the basis of the Orson Welles film The Lady from Shanghai . </Li> <Li> Shel Silverstein parodied the prayer in his 1981 book A Light in the Attic with a poem titled Prayer of the Selfish Child . </Li> <Li> Aerosmith paraphrases the prayer as "Now I lay me down to sleep, goodnight / Pray the Lord my soul to keep tonight" in their song "Darkness". </Li> <Li> Frankie Knuckles and Jamie Principle open their classic Chicago House track "Baby Wants to Ride" with the first part of this prayer . </Li> <Li> Sky Ferreira paraphrases the lyric as "and laid awake, / Pray the Lord my soul to take" in her song "Sad Dream" </Li> <Li> Kid Cudi paraphrases the lyric as "And if I die before I wake, / I pray the Lord my soul to take" in his song "The Prayer" </Li> <Li> Kanye West paraphrases the lyric as "As I lay me down to sleep" in his song Only One </Li> <Li> Metallica paraphrases the lyric as "Now I lay me down to sleep / I pray the lord my soul to keep / And if I die before I wake / Pray the lord my soul to take" in their song "Enter Sandman" </Li> <Li> Megadeth paraphrases the lyric as "And if I die before I wake / Pray the lord my soul to take" in their song "Go to Hell" </Li> <Li> Aloe Blacc paraphrases the lyric as "And Now I lay me down to sleep / I pray the Lord my soul to keep / And if I die before I wake / there must be a mistake, Lord take me back" in his song "Take Me Back" </Li> <Li> TobyMac paraphrases the lyric as "If I should die before I wake / I pray the Lord my soul to take / And if I should get a peaceful sleep / I wanna wake at my Father's feet" in his song "Captured" </Li> <Li> The Civil Wars paraphrase the lyric as "Still can't lay me down to sleep / If I die before I wake / I know the Lord my soul won't take" in their song Barton Hollow . </Li> <Li> In the 1984 slasher movie A Nightmare on Elm Street Nancy Thompson, played by Heather Langenkamp, recites the prayer before going to sleep to confront Freddy Krueger in the Dream World . </Li> <Li> A little girl recites the prayer to keep herself safe from the monster she sees in the 1986 slasher movie Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives . </Li> <Li> Sir Psycho Sexy by Red Hot Chili Peppers uses an alternate version of the rhyme . </Li> <Li> Christina Aguilera paraphrases the lyrics as "Now I lay me down to sleep / I pray we'll meet inside my dreams / If I should go before I wake / I pray our souls will join again" in her song "Little Dreamer". </Li> <Li> In Michael Grant's book, "Plague", Dekka recites this prayer with Hunter in his last moments before Sam euthanises him with a deadly beam of light because of the "greenies", parasites which were eating Hunter alive . </Li> <Li> Snoop Dogg interpolates the whole prayer in his song "Murder Was the Case" from his debut album, Doggystyle . </Li> <Li> HIM paraphrases the lyrics with some different words in their song "Buried Alive By Love, "If I should die before I wake / Pray no one my soul to take / If I wake before I die, / Rescue me with your smile" from their album Love Metal . </Li> <Li> Frank Wilson samples part of the prayer in his Northern Soul song "Do I Love You, Indeed I Do". </Li> <Li> Notorious B.I.G. paraphrases the lyrics as "Now I lay me down to sleep / Pray the Lord my soul to keep / If I should die before I wake / I pray the Lord my soul to take" in the title song of his album "Ready To Die". </Li> <Li> Dalton Trumbo uses the sentence "Now I lay me down to sleep" in his book Johnny Got His Gun, in both sections Book I: The Dead and Book II: The Living . </Li> <Li> 2Pac paraphrases the lyrics as "Now I lay me down to sleep / I pray the Lord my guns to keep / If I die before I wake / I pray the Lord my soul to take" in the song "When Thugz Cry", which was scrapped from the album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory and put at the end on his demo album The Don Killuminati: The 3 Day Theory . The song later appears on one of 2Pac's posthumous albums; Until The End of Time, and also featured in his posthumous documentary film, Tupac: Resurrection . </Li> <Li> G - Eazy paraphrases the lyrics as "Yeah, lonely nights I laid awake / Pray to lord, my soul to take" in his song "Me, Myself & I". </Li> <Li> The song "Crazy World" from the 1991 album "House of Exile" by Lucky Dube includes the entire prayer . </Li> <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," there is a scene where 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 prayer, ending with "If you should die before you wake ..." before tormenting and trying to attack Bart . </Li> <Li> In the 1940 MGM animated short Puss Gets the Boot, Jinx the mouse recites the prayer as he gets caught by Jasper the cat after his scheme fails . </Li> <Li> Ernest Hemingway wrote a short story titled "Now I Lay Me". </Li> <Li> In the 2001 Survival horror game Silent Hill 2, the prayer is backmasked into one of its ending songs "The Reverse Will" </Li> <Li> The character of Stuart Larkin, played by Michael McDonald (comedian) on Mad TV, recites the prayer near the beginning of a sketch referred to as "Stuart and the Tooth Fairy". </Li> <Li> Belgica Wave Party uses the New England Primer version of the rhyme in their song "The Wave". </Li> <Li> Blackbear references the poem in his song "do re mi" </Li> </Ul> <Li> Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (organization) is a 501 (c) (3) not - for - profit organization that offers complimentary remembrance photography to families grieving after a stillbirth or the death of an infant . </Li>

If i do not wake i pray the lord my soul to take