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Thread #31596   Message #3090551
Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Feb-11 - 01:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hush Little Baby - parodies
Subject: Lyr Add: HUSH LITTLE BABY (Garrison Keillor)
From the Prairie Home Companion show, Saturday, May 15, 2004:
HUSH LITTLE BABY sung by Inga Swearingen, (using some vocal techniques she apparently picked up from Bobby McFerrin).
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Hush, little baby, don't you cry.
Mama gonna make you some rhubarb pie,
And if that rhubarb pie is too sour,
Mama gonna pick you a wildflower,
And if that wildflower wilts,
Mama gonna buy you a pair of stilts,
And if that pair of stilts ain't steady,
Mama gonna make you a bowl of spaghetti.

If that spaghetti's not al dente,
Mama gonna buy you a horn of plenty,
And if that horn doesn't have the right fruit,
Mama gonna buy you a two-piece suit,
And if that suit's not the right material,
Mama will feed you a bowl of cereal,
But if that cereal's not low-carb,
Mama gonna feed you some more rhubarb,
So hush, little baby, don't you moan,
It's been thirty years on The Prairie Home.