The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30230   Message #387264
Posted By: Stewie
01-Feb-01 - 01:14 AM
Thread Name: Origins: All the Pretty Little Horses
Subject: RE: Help: All the Pretty Little Horses-2
The version in Lomax's ABFS has a rather macabre second verse:

Hushaby
Don't you cry
Go to sleep, little baby,
Way down yonder
In de medder
There's a po' lil lambie
De bees an' de butterflies
Peckin' out its eyes,
De po' lil thing cried, mammy!
Hushaby
Don't you cry
Go to sleepy, little baby

I'll bet the psychoanalysts could make a thing or two out of that.

--Stewie.