Bye and bye Moses cried.

Subject: Bye and bye Moses cried.
From: Sammi a.
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 10:42 AM

Can anyone help me please.my nan used to sing a song about this-: Bye and bye Moses cried just as loud as all babies can. I dont remember most of the words but it was about how a princees found him and took him to be her own untill he became a man.i would dearly love to remeber how it went.

Subject: RE: Bye and bye Moses cried.
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 10:52 AM

I found this on BaptistBoard.com:

Up and Down, Up and Down


Up and down, up and down
On the waters of River Nile,
Up and down, up and down
The cradle was rocked for a while.
By and by, Moses cried,
Just as loud as all babies can,
And a lovely princess took him for her own
Until he became a man.


Nothing else so far.
Mick

Subject: RE: Bye and bye Moses cried. Thanks mick
From: Sammi a.
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 11:03 AM

Thank you so much mick pearce . im crying because it really does ring a bell chord with me.Although im sure there were more lyrics to it. im not good at this computer stuff and i didnt know how to send you a personal message to say thank you .so sorry its in thread..

Subject: RE: Bye and bye Moses cried.
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 05:12 PM

Sammi - Glad to be of help. I'll try and see if there's anything else I can find out.

Mick

Subject: RE: Bye and bye Moses cried.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 05:14 PM

I've been looking, too, Mick. Can't find more. I'll keep on.

Subject: RE: Bye and bye Moses cried.
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 06:58 PM

Thanks for looking Pearce.

Religious songs are not really my area, so I don't have many sources for them. I've searched for various bits of the song on the internet, but still only come up with the reference I found earlier. However, I have emailed the poster on the BaptistBoard forum to see if he can provide any more information.

Mick

Subject: RE: Bye and bye Moses cried.
From: Janie
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 09:00 PM

I'm looking also. Surely among us all we will turn up something more.

Subject: RE: Bye and bye Moses cried.
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 05:53 PM

I received a reply from the poster on the other forum and he doesn't know anything about the origin of the song or a source for it. He did, however, send me the melody, which I give below; maybe it will jog someone's memory.

Mick

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X: 1
T:Up And Down
S:sent to MCP by David Lamb of Foxhole Grace Baptist Church, Paignton, Devon
N:Original source still unknown
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:C
G2 E G3|G2 E GAB|cdc G2 ^F|F6|
w:Up and down, up and down on the wat-ers of Riv-er Nile,
F2 D F3|F2 D F2 A|BcB ABA|E6|
w:Up and down, up and down the crad-le was rocked for a while.
G2 E G3|G2 E GAB|ccc B2 _B|A3-A
w:By and by, Mos-es cried, just as loud as all bab-ies can,_
AB|ccc c2 A|ccc c2 A|GAB d2 e|c6|]
w:Till a love-ly princ-ess took him for her own un-til he be-came a man.

Subject: RE: Bye and bye Moses cried. thank u
From: Sammi a.
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 08:32 PM

Hi and many thanks to mick p. janie. And how wonderful that David lamb sent through the melody notes.Really delighted to have words and tune.Bless you all.