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Thread #81179 Message #1500504
Posted By: harpgirl
05-Jun-05 - 11:20 AM
Thread Name: African American Secular Folk Songs
Subject: Lyr Add: GO TO SLEEP LITTLE BABY
Here's a lullaby from "Step It Down" Games, Plays, Songs& Stories from the Afro-American Heritage, by Bessie Jones and Bess Lomax Hawes
GO TO SLEEP LITTLE BABY
Go to sleep little baby, little baby, Before the booger man catch you.
All them horses in that lot, Go to sleepy, little baby
Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleepy, little baby.
Mama went away and she told me to stay and take good care of this baby.
Go to sleep, go to sleep, Go to sleepy, little baby.
All them horses in that lot Go to sleepy, little baby Can't you hear them horses trot? Go to sleepy, little baby
Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleepy, little baby
If I rock this baby to sleep Go to sleepy, little baby Someday he will remember me Go to sleepy little baby.
Go to sleep, go to sleepy Go to sleepy little baby.