I seem to recall him doing that song about the guy who a gal left alone to mind somebody else's baby!

Ah, hee, oh, hee, rock-a-by-baby,
Rockin' the cradle and left all alone,
Ah hee, oh hee rockin' and singin'
Fo that little baby that's none of my own.

Art
Wonderful to find this showing up in a Carib tempo and vein. It has a much older antecedent, as you probably know, in an old Irish ballad called "Rocking the Cradle of a Child Not My Own", I think.

"Ayeeee, ayooooh, my laddy lie easy
Sure my misfortunes are none of your own
But its weary I am, with weepin' and mournin'
And rocking the cradle, and its none of my own."

This theme also migrated from ca. 18th century Ireland to 19th century Western US, where it became a well known cowboy's theme:

"Yipee kai, yi, yo, get around, you little dogies
It's your misfortune, ain't none of my own.
Well, whoopee ti yo, get around, you little dogies
For you know that Wyoming will be your new home."


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