I was having trouble finding a version that has the "you shall have cake" line that's in the Digital Tradition. I finally found som in Volume III of the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, song #115, pages 150-151.


115
HUSH-A-BYE, DON'T YOU CRY
This lullaby is perhaps of Southern origin. It is not recorded by Halliwell or Rimbault nor has it been reported by folk-song collectors in New England or the Middle or the Western states, but it is known in Virginia (SharpK II 341, FSV 182-3), South Carolina (JAFL XLIV 419), Georgia (JAFL XLVII 334, ASh 454-5), Louisiana (TNFS 147, Negroes), and Texas (TNFS 145-6, Negroes). It appears four times in our collection.

A. 'Hush-a-By.' Reported by Laura M. Cromartie of Garland, Sampson county. Not dated. Dr. White notes on the manuscript: "I recall the third stanza from my own childhood in Statesville, N. C., Ca. 1898."

HUSH-A-BY

Hush a by an' don't you cry,
An' go to sleep, little baby;
When you wake you shall have some cake
An' ride a pretty little horsey.

You shall have a little canoe
An' a little bit of a paddle;
You shall have a little red mule
An' a little bitty saddle.

The black an' the bay, the sorrel an' the grey,
All belong to my baby.
So hush a by an' don't you cry
An' go to sleep, little baby.

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B. 'Rock-a-bye, Don't You Cry.' From Mrs. Nilla Lancaster, Wayne county. Probably in 1923.

ROCK-A-BYE, DON'T YOU CRY

Rock-a-bye, don't you cry,
Go to sleep, little baby.
When baby wakes, give her some cake;
That will do for baby.

Rock-a-bye, don't you cry.
All those purty little, little horsies.
When baby wakes, give him cake,
Let him ride them purty little horsies.

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C. 'Go to Sleep.' Not really a North Carolina text, having been contributed by Cornelia Evermond Covington from Florence county, South Carolina.

GO TO SLEEP

Go to sleep, go to sleep,
Go to sleep, little baby.
When you wake I'll give you a cake
And five or six little horses.

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D. 'Go to Sleep, Go to Sleep.' Communicated by Louise W. Sloan, of Bladen county. Differs from C only in the last line, which runs: "A coach and four little horses."