My Dad used to sing this song to us at bedtime. He found the lyrics for it in a magazine called Child Life published in November 1923. Dad had a copy of the original lyrics sent to him before the publisher went out of business and shared them with us as my sisters and I began our families. I am now going to share the lyrics and melody with my daughter, her husband and my first grandchild to carry on the tradition. I don't know where my Dad got the melody but he sang it to us when I was less than 5 in 1953, but it sounds somewhat like the recording Barbara has shared with us all.