Lyr Req: Stay in Your Own Backyard (Kennett/Udall)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stay in your own backyard
From: GUEST,kidknuth
Date: 08 Nov 00 - 10:36 PM

Thank you so much Mrs. Duck. My mom use to sing it to us, and her mother sang it to her. We are all from N.O., La. I was starting to believe it we dreamed it up. There is a another part of it where the little child dies ("THen one day the little waif was gone for ever more...") We were trying to remember how that part went. Was it part of your version as well?

Subject: ADD: Stay in your own backyard
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 08 Nov 00 - 06:26 PM

This will be close but it's one my grandmother sang to me and she died in '63 so I may be a bit rusty.

STAY IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD

Lilac trees are blooming at the corner by the gate
Mammy in her little cabin door
Curly headed piccaninny home from school so late
Crying 'cos his little heart am sore
All the other children there with skin so white and fair
None of them with him would ever play
So Mammy on her lap takes that little weeping chap
And croons to him in her sweet way

Go play in your own back yard
No matter what the white child say
Now what do you suppose that they could do
to a black little boy(coon)like you
Stay inside of the high yard wall
And Honey, don't you cry so hard
Go play as long as you may
But stay in your own backyard.

I still sing it to my children and have never come across anyone who knew it outside of the family.

Subject: Stay in your own backyard
From: GUEST,kidknuth
Date: 08 Nov 00 - 05:24 PM

I'm trying to find the lyrics for an old Southern lullaby called "Stay in your own backyard". It starts out: Lilac trees are bloomin' in the corner by the gate...

Please help.

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