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Thread #22122   Message #3673276
Posted By: Jim Dixon
31-Oct-14 - 07:15 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hush Hush Hush Here Comes the Bogey Man
Subject: Lyr Add: HUSH THE BOGIE MAN (Sims/Pettitt/Lutz)
But wait! It gets more complicated. There seems to have been more than one version of "Sinbad" in circulation. This version comes from UC Berkeley Library:

"Be sure and get the hit of SINBAD...."
HUSH! THE BOGIE MAN!
Words by George Sims and Henry Pettitt; music by Meyer Lutz.
San Francisco: Broder & Schlam, ©1891.

1. Come, all my little darling ones, and listen now to me.
Come, climb upon my shoulders, dears, and sit upon my knee.
Come, pretty Kate and naughty Bob and saucy Mary Ann,
And I will sing a little song: hush, hush! the Bogie Man!

CHORUS: Hush, hush, hush! Here comes the Bogie Man!
So hide your heads beneath the clothes; he'll take you if he can.
Hush, hush, hush! and all the children ran.
So hushaby, my babies dear; here comes the Bogie Man.

2. He will look for naughty Harry, and for saucy little Kate.
He'll take the little boy who cries when put to bed at eight.
And Tommy who won't go to school; he'll put him in his van
To take a ride to Bogie Land to live with Bogie Man.

3. He'll come for naughty little boys who chatter when in church.
He'll lay them on his Bogie knee and give them Bogie birch.
And when that lazy little Jack to play in school began,
He made his mother cry and say: "Hush, hush! the Bogie Man!"

4. He'll come into the nursery, where clumsy girls and boys
Throw shuttlecocks through windows and break up all their toys.
He'll take away the dolls and tops—that always is his plan—
Because my darlings laugh and say: "There is no Bogie Man!"