| Author | Topic: Add: The Mocking Bird | |
| dmcg | Posted - 24 Feb 07 - 09:57 am | |
Hush up, baby, don't say a word, Papa's going to buy you a mocking bird. If it can't whistle, and it can't sing. Papa's going to buy you a diamond ring. If that diamond ring turns to brass, Papa's going to buy you a looking glass. If that looking glass gets broke, Papa's going to buy you a Billy goat. If that Bily goat runs away Papa's going to buy you another today. Source: Singing Together, Summer 1951, BBC Publications Notes: From "Twelve Songs for Children (English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians)". Maud Karpeles and the Oxford Univeristy Press. Roud: 470 (Search Roud index at VWML) | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 24 Feb 07 - 12:54 pm | |
I remember learning a version of that from a book (Lomax I think) of American folk songs I used to have. The words (from my memory) were close to the one I've found here: "HUSH, LPL' BABY eK No. 878. Annie Brewer, Montgomery, Ala., 1937. Hush, li'l'ba-by, don'say a word, Mam-ma's gon-na buy you a mock-in'bird. 1 Hush, li'l' baby, don' say a word, Mamma's gonna buy you a mockingbird. 2 If that mockin'bird don sing, Mamma's gonna buy you a diamond ring. 3 If that diamond ring turn brass, Mamma's gonna buy you a lookin' glass. 4 If that lookin' glass gets broke, Mamma's gonna buy you a billygoat. 5 If that billygoat won' pull, Mamma's gonna buy you a cart and bull. 6 If that cart and bull turn over, Mamma's gonna buy you a dog named Rover. 7 If that dog named Rover won' bark, Mamma's gonna buy you a horse and cart. 8 If that horse and cart fall down, You'll be the sweetest girl in town." | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 24 Feb 07 - 02:46 pm | |
Lomax's Our Singing Country (1949 ed.) is at Internet Archive (Click here). HUSH, LI'L' BABY is on page 96 (with music). | ||