Friends & Family Attend Wake For Natasha Richardson

Vanessa Redgrave sang a lullaby to her dying daughter in the final moments of her life, London's Daily Telegraph reported Friday.

Shortly before Natasha Richardson's family made the decision to turn off the life-support machine, Redgrave, 72, sang "Edelweiss" from The Sound Of Music at New York's Lenox Hill hospital, where Richardson, 45, died Wednesday of internal bleeding following a ski accident.

It reportedly is the same song she performed for her daughter's first marriage to Robert Fox in 1990. Lyrics include "Blossom of snow, may you bloom and grow/Bloom and grow forever."

On Friday, Richardson's husband Liam Neeson and family gathered at the American Irish Historical Society in NYC for the late actress' wake. A hearse carrying the polished wooden casket bearing Richardson's body was transported from the Greenwich Village Funeral Home earlier in the day.

Richardson's two sons, Micheal, 13, and Daniel, 12, joined Neeson and the actress' mother, Redgrave, and sister, Joely Richardson, at the private viewing. ABC newswoman Diane Sawyer, Mike Nichols, Matthew Modine, Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman were also present.

After today's wake, Richardson will be buried Sunday during a private funeral service in Millbrook, N.Y., where she belonged to St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, ABC News reports.

The private viewing followed Thursday night's tribute when Broadway theaters dimmed their lights for a minute to mark her death. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were among the stars who paid their respects.

Quoting the Cole Porter song "Everytime We Say Goodbye," Parker told Us: "It's as if Porter were writing the sentiments of everyone who was privileged enough to know, work with or love the late great Ms. Richardson."

She then e-mailed the lyrics to the song:
"Every time we say goodbye, I die a little.Every time we say goodbye, I wonder why a little.Why the gods above me, who must be in the know,think so little of me they allow you to go.When you're near there's such an air of spring about it.I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it.There's no love song finer but how strange the change from major to minor,Every time we say goodbye, every single time we say goodbye."