Lyr/Tune Req: Missouri Waltz

Subject: missouri waltz??
From: Musicman
Date: 16 Jan 99 - 01:50 AM

ANybody got words and music for Missouri Waltz. I've had a few requests for it. Didn't find in here or on Cowpie.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: missouri waltz??
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jan 99 - 02:56 AM

My dad will. I'll talk to him this weekend. I can hum it, pick it out on the piano and put it into ABC for you, but don't remember the words.

kat

Subject: RE: missouri waltz??
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jan 99 - 03:05 AM

Sorry, if I blame it on the computer will you all believe me?

Musicman: If you go to the Links, and then to the Lester Levy Collection to Box 189 Item 121, you will find the Missouri Waltz that Bing Crosby sang and a couple of other versions of it. They aren't the words I grew up hearing, but the tune is the same and it is beautiful. A fiddle can really sing playing this one.

katlaughing

Subject: RE: missouri waltz??
From: Musicman
Date: 16 Jan 99 - 05:31 AM

Thanks for the help. When you get the other words, post them, I'd like to see them.

Paul

Subject: RE: missouri waltz??
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 16 Jan 99 - 07:14 AM

My granddad sang it this way to my mom who sang it to me:

Hushabye, my baby. Slumber time is coming soon.
Rest your head on mama's breast while mama hums a tune.
The sandman is coming. The people are humming, so hushabye;
(Here they couldn't remember or were censoring the lyrics, so they hummed for 2 phrases)
The banjos are strumming, the people are humming, so hushabye.

I remember seeing it in a Reader's Digest songbook collection. My mom-in-law sings the censored line, something about "When I was a pick-a-ninny on my mama's knee"

(For those outside the US, a pickaninny is a term no longer in use for a child of African American heritage. Not complimentary!)

Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Missouri Waltz
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 10:15 AM

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QWJbojRb6TU

Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Missouri Waltz
From: Gene
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 11:06 AM

Google for:

[Lyrics Missouri Waltz]

The Missouri Waltz
JR.Shannon & John V. Eppel
As recorded by Eddy Arnold

[F]Hush a bye my [C7]baby
Slumber [F]time is coming soon
Rest your head up[C7]on my breast
While [F]mommy hums a tune
The [Bb]sandman is callin' where
[F]Shadows are fallin'
While the [G7]soft breezes sigh
As in [C7]days long gone by

[F]Way down in Missouri
Where I heard this melody
When I was a [C7]little child
[F]On my mommy's knees
The [Bb]old folks were [Dm]humming
Their [F]banjoes were strumming
So [G7]sweet [C7]and [F]low

[Dm]Strum strum strum strum strum
[Cm]Seems hear those banjoes
[A7]playin' once a[Dm]gain
Hum hum hum hum hum
That same old [A7]plaintive [Dm]strain

[Dm]Hear that [A7]mournful [Dm]melo[A7]dy
It just [Dm]haunts you the [A7]whole day [Dm]long
And you [Bb]wander in dreams
Back to [F]Dixie it seems
When you [G7]hear that [C7]old time [F]song

[F]Hush a bye my [C7]baby
Go to [F]sleep on mommy's knee
Journey back to [C7]Dixieland
In [F]dreams again with me
It [Bb]seems like your mommy is
[F]There once again
And the [G7]old folks were strumming
That [C7]same old refrain

[F]Way down in Mis[C7]souri
Where I [F]learned this lullaby
When the stars were [C7]blinkin'
And the [F]moon was climbin' high
Seems I [Bb]hear voices [Dm]low
As in [F]days long ago
Singing [G7]hush [C7]a [F]bye

Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Missouri Waltz
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 09:09 AM

See the lyrics in another thread: HUSH-A-BYE, MA BABY (THE MISSOURI WALTZ)