Lyr Add: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

Subject: Lyr Add: BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 05:52 PM

BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP

Baa, baa, black sheep, where'd you leave your lamb?
Way down yonder the valley,
The birds and the butterflies a-picking out it eyes
And the poor little thing cried, "Ma-a-amy."

Mammy told me before she went away
To take good care of the baby.
But then I went away and the baby ran away,
And the poor little thing was cried, "Ma-a-amy."

The birds and the butterflies a-flying all around,
And the poor little thing was crying, "Ma-a-amy."

Emrich, Duncan, American Folk Poetry - An anthology "Children's Songs," Little Brown and Co. 1974, p6. "Baa,Baa, Black Sheep" was recorded by Artus M. Moser from the singing of Bascom Lamar Lunsford of South Turkey Creek, North Carolina, at Swannanoa, North Carola, 1946 Library of Congress record LP20.

AFS L 20:ANGLO-AMERICAN SONGS AND BALLADS ($8.95)
Recorded in various parts of U.S. by several collectors, 1938-46.
Edited by Duncan Emrich. 8-page brochure.http://www.loc.gov/folklife/folkcat.html

Another version in Sheet Music (four male voices 1881 by Wiske, C. M..publisher Geo. Mollineaux) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 07:44 PM

This has already been posted, and the link to it is in the Spirituals Permathread Index of Posted Spirituals. I suggest it be moved to the other thread.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 07:48 PM

Here's the thread it could go in: CLICK

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Apr 05 - 10:25 PM

Sorry for the Slip-Up WYSIWYG -

It belongs there.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
From: GUEST,WYSIWYG
Date: 27 Apr 05 - 10:45 PM

I've pasted it in the other thread.

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 02:32 AM

i really want to hear this song, i grew up with my papa singing it to me and am curious of the tune and also would like confirmation if this song is of scottish origin and how old it is. it always fascinated me thinking of the poor little lamb whilst snuggled safe in my grandpa's arms my children also love this song though my papa did mangle the words and mixed in a line from another song

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 29 Jul 26 - 10:01 PM

My Granny who lived in Alabama sang this to me as a little girl but it was a little different.
Baa baa black sheep where's your lamb? Way down yonder in a hole with the birds and the flies a pecking out it's eyes and the po' little thing cryin Mammy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
From: meself
Date: 30 Jul 26 - 11:06 AM

Now, that's pretty dark ... ! Kind of reminds me of the Appalachian woman on another forum recently who was talking about how she would sing all her favourite old murder ballads, which had come to her through tradition, as lullabies, without ever thinking about the lyrics ....

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
From: The Sandman
Date: 30 Jul 26 - 11:26 AM

the original rhyme has apolitical meaning dating to 1275
"Baa Baa Black Sheep" is a traditional English nursery rhyme that historically symbolizes a 13th-century medieval tax on wool imposed by King Edward I. The three bags of wool represent how a sack of wool was split: one for the king (master), one for the church or local landowner (dame), and originally none for the struggling farmer or shepherd boy (the little boy who cries down the lane).

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 31 Jul 26 - 10:42 AM

Herself was more incensed than somewhat^† when our local primary school deemed Baa Baa Black Sheep to be racist. She retaliated by teaching our two the version which she'd learnt in Latin lessons.

† She's always been a good Catholic.