BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP

Baa, baa, black sheep, where'd you leave your lamb?
Way down yonder the valley,
The birds and the butterflies a-picking out it eyes
And the poor little thing cried, "Ma-a-amy."

Mammy told me before she went away
To take good care of the baby.
But then I went away and the baby ran away,
And the poor little thing was cried, "Ma-a-amy."

The birds and the butterflies a-flying all around,
And the poor little thing was crying, "Ma-a-amy."

Emrich, Duncan, American Folk Poetry - An anthology "Children's Songs," Little Brown and Co. 1974, p6. "Baa,Baa, Black Sheep" was recorded by Artus M. Moser from the singing of Bascom Lamar Lunsford of South Turkey Creek, North Carolina, at Swannanoa, North Carola, 1946 Library of Congress record LP20.

AFS L 20:ANGLO-AMERICAN SONGS AND BALLADS ($8.95)
Recorded in various parts of U.S. by several collectors, 1938-46.
Edited by Duncan Emrich. 8-page brochure.http://www.loc.gov/folklife/folkcat.html

Another version in Sheet Music (four male voices 1881 by Wiske, C. M..publisher Geo. Mollineaux) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/

Sincerely,
Gargoyle