Lyr Req: Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 27 Aug 17 - 03:53 AM

There's a version by Eric Clapton (really!) on the album 'I Still Do'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
From: GUEST,Howard Cunningham
Date: 29 Mar 13 - 04:34 PM

Hi .what happened to the words that were part of this song I heard when I was young about the toy soldiers that the boy had that got broken by someone and the dad or singer tells the boy don't worry they are only made of clay so dad will buy you new ones right away?I think the words went something like this: Little man you're crying,I know why your blue: Someone broke your toy soldiers today, don't worry,they're only made of clay anyway. Dad will buy you new ones right away. Better go to sleep,now, little man you've had a busy day. I'm not exactly sure if these words I put here as a part of that song are right but I think these words I put here are close to being right at least.Anyway,I always liked hearing this song when I was young.From Howard.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
From: GUEST,Morgan I.
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 10:53 PM

My grandmother used to sing a rendition:
Little girl you're crying
I know why you're blue
Someone took your kiddy car away
Better go to sleep now
Little girl
Yu've nada busy day

Johnny took your marbles, tell you what we'll do,
Mom'll get you new ones right away
Better go to sleep now
Little girl
Yu'vehad a busy day

You've been playing mommy
But now your day is through
Your babies are all fast asleep.
Dishes are all done now
The household work is done,
Play now in dreamtime little one

Better go to sleep now, little girl,
You've had a busy day.

She used to sing me to sleep with it every night when I was young after my parents got divorced and my mom, brother and I moved back in with her. Now if I can't sleep , I sing it to myself, and eventually, I'll sing it to my own kids(:

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 01:03 PM

Is there another version of this song? My father used to sing me a song to the tune of Mary Had A Little Lamb - it went: Little girl you've had a busy day today, put away your dolly and all your other toys, cause little girl you've had a busy day today. I can't remember the rest.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 08:20 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26cAcirG4ww

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 07:47 AM

my name is 'K'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
From: GUEST,stevie wonder
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 12:08 PM

I first heard this song on a Chet Baker album titled The Artistry of Chet Baker, copyright 1955. Chet was a great crooner with his trumpet and voice. I would love to come up with the music score for Little Man, You've Had A Busy Day.

I sing in an A Capella quartet, and I think that song would be a great addition to our lisst of songs.

Any help would be appreciated.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
From: GUEST,brian brown
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 06:57 AM

Hello Folks

Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of the music score for Little Man You've Had A Busy Day?

Regards

Brian Brown

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Pete_Standing
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 07:58 PM

Pretty sure they are.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Scrump
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 05:43 AM

Yes, I remember Graham and Eileen Pratt singing this too. Are they still around? I haven't heard of them for ages.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 06:53 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little Man You've Had a Busy Day
From:
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 09:28 PM

Has anyone sent you the chords to Little Man You've Had a Busy Day?

Iknow most of the song-- the bridge eludes me. I suspect if I read the lyrics it would come to me. I could supply you with chord names and a melody line.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 10:22 AM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Billy Weeks
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 11:16 AM

Yuk

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From:
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 06:30 PM

Surprisingly nobody has mentioned Connie Boswell's rendering of this song until now. It was recorded in 1934 with Victor Young and his Orchestra and is available on various Boswell-CDs now. Connie's dark musical voice croons its way through this little ballad very pleasantly, with a touching 'bless your little hart .. good night baby' at the end. Sentimental? yeah, sure, but what's wrong with that?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 03:59 PM

Frank,I'm new to the computer 'business'.I'm trying to take you up on your offer of an mp3 of Paul Robeson's 'Little Man,You've Had a...." Please e-mail to me what I should do to get one. I learnt this song in Ele. School in India,about 55 years ago! Ta.Rose Olivero.   (Canada)   [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Billy Weeks
Date: 02 Jun 04 - 04:57 AM

I can remember as a six or seven year old (about the time it was first unleashed) finding this song completely sickening.   I couldn't have put it into wordsat the time, but I felt it was patronising (to kids)and sickeningly treacly. Pity. Ray Noble was a good song writer.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 31 May 04 - 05:51 PM

Seems this thread has been hijacked! Next time you want to know about a song not in the thread title, would you please read the Mudcat newbies thread and then start your own! Pleeeease!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Pete_Standing
Date: 28 May 04 - 01:06 PM

Frank

My mother used to sing that song to me. I can half remember the melody and very few of the words. Thanks to this posting, I'm nearer finding something that I thought I'd never come across again. So please, an MP3 would be most welcome.

With respect to the musing "This is a folk song?", this posting proves that it is has been handed down orally through the generations; just like a traditional folk song, but there the similarity ends. Anyway, distinctions and labels sometimes do get a bit blurred.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Amos
Date: 28 May 04 - 10:49 AM

OVALTINES, FAITH, FOLK AND FAMILY. BRITISH OI! AT ITS FINEST! (We Are) the Ovaltines, Argentina, One of the Kind, R. + N., Apathy, Bomber, Scum, Kicked to Shit, British Justice, Seek and Destroy, Joe Public, Odin's Rite, Father to Son, Words . (Dreadlord Records), CD 278, $21.95

http://www.msrproductions.com/british_oi_cds.htm

A

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Flash Company
Date: 28 May 04 - 10:37 AM

Reputedly played by Art Tatum when he followed Oscar Peterson to the piano after a typical Peterson 'Let's play every note on the keyboard' number.

FC

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: LindsayInWales
Date: 27 May 04 - 06:10 PM

I've got a recorded version by Henry Hall dated 1930s

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: GUEST
Date: 27 May 04 - 05:06 PM

The last person I heard singing this song was Eileen Pratt. She and husband Graham make a really good job of it. I'm not sure if it's on a recording or not, but they would be worth tracking down to check.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: GUEST,Eric Wrate
Date: 27 May 04 - 10:11 AM

Ovaltine has a web site - I have heard the song there

Subject: we are the ovaltines song
From: GUEST,Pat Waites
Date: 05 May 04 - 11:31 PM

Please can any one Help me, i AM TRYING TO FIND THE LYRICS/WORDS TO THE SONG WE ARE THE OVALTINES'S sORRY NOT SURE OF SPELLING
AS I have Fibromyalgia and a group of us are trying to find the word to the song so we can sing it at a charity show,
I would be very grateful, Thank you, you can e email at [e-mail]

Pat

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Frank Maher
Date: 21 Mar 04 - 10:05 PM

I have that song by paul robeson on a 78...i will make an mp3 of it and send it to anyone who wants it!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 21 Mar 04 - 07:21 PM

As pointed out far up above, one of the most recent recordings must be on Coope, Boyes and Simpson's 'Falling Slowly' CD, in the late Nineties. Try a Google search for the group!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From:
Date: 20 Mar 04 - 07:52 PM

Thanks for the lyrics. I too remember it from way back. I want to find the music in either CD or Tape and maybe even record. Can you help?
Thanks Morrie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From:
Date: 26 Feb 04 - 04:04 PM

I have been looking for the lyrics to this song for years. No one has ever heard of it, and I find it on your site!! Wow. My mother sang it to me as a small child, and it always made things seem better. Thank you!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: GUEST,kikokitty
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 12:41 PM

Bing crosby sang it? I thought it was Perry Como?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From:
Date: 17 Jun 03 - 02:44 AM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Jim Colbert
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 11:40 AM

art quipped: "MIDI lamb, you've had a dizzy bey!"


Art, you owe me about, oh, a dime for the coffee my keyboard is now wearing after that one...

(:

(hey, a dime, doesn't that buy about twelve of us, from what I hear?!)

jim colbert
amused in Bellefonte PA

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From:
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 08:14 AM

Thank you, since my family and I never had the pleasure of hearing a recording of this song, we had began to believe my mother had just learned it from her Mother (which considering my Grandmother was just a little hard to believe) the last time I heard my Mother sing that song was to my nephews and seeing the words brings tears. My Mother had a wonderful voice although she herself said that when feeling poorly one day, she ask God, "Lord what is wrong with me" and she told me His reply was, "WELL FOR ONE THING YOUR CAN'T SING". So thank you for the memories. By the way my sister sent me the link.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 09:52 PM

Thanks Joe,
Big Help!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: Micca
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 06:45 AM

There is a story about Bud Flanagan (a UK theatre comic, leader of the Crazy Gang) who after an afternoon tryst with the Leading lady singer of the show named (anita?) Day, is reputed to have said "Little Day, you have had a busy man"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: harvey andrews
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 06:07 AM

My father used to sing it to me. Thanks for the memory.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Little man you've had a busy day
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 05:55 AM

Thanks joe! a great help.

Subject: Chords Add: LITTLE MAN, YOU'VE HAD A BUSY DAY
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 04:42 AM

Hi - I moved your request over here with the rest of the discussion of the song. This is from the First time Ever fakebook. Probably set up more for piano, but the chords should give you a start.
-Joe Offer-

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   Eb                 Cm     Gm                 Ab
  Little man, you're cryin', I know why you're blue
   Eb                Ab        G7  C7
  Someone took your kiddy-car away
   F7           F#dim
  Better go to sleep now
   Eb     Cm          Fm     Bb7 Eb  Cm  Bb+5
  Little man, you've had a busy day
  
   Eb              Cm       Gm                  Ab
  Johnny won your marbles, tell you what we'll do
   Eb             Ab              G7  C7
  Dad'll get you new ones right away
    F7          F#dim
  Better go to sleep now
   Eb     Cm          Fm     Bb7 Eb  Abm Eb  Eb7
  Little man, you've had a busy day
  
   Ab                  D7           Eb              C7
  You've been playin' soldier, the battle has been won
   Fm          Bb7     Eb  Eb7
  The enemy is out of sight
   Fm7              G7       Cm            C7
  Come along there soldier, put away your gun
       F7                 Bb7  Gm  D  Bb7
  The war is over for tonight
  
   Eb                 Cm       Gm                 Ab
  Time to stop your schemin', time your day was through
   Eb                 Ab           G7  C7
  Can't you hear the bugle softly say
   F7                  F#dim
  Time you should be dreamin'
   Eb     Cm          Fm   Bb7   Eb  Fm7  Eb  Bb7  Eb
  Little man, you've had a busy day

Subject: Chord Req: Little man you have had a busy day
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 03:16 AM

Does anyone have chords and lyrics for this. This is one of my favourite tunes. Nothing came up on google when I tried.
Thanks

Subject: RE: Little man you've had a busy day - Lyrics
From: Mudlark
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 11:04 PM

I've always loved this lullaby...seems like I can hear, in my mind's ear, Bing Crosby singing it, along with That Sly Old Gentleman from Featherbed Lane... Chords to Little Man are easy and the song sounds great on the guitar...

Subject: RE: Little man you've had a busy day - Lyrics
From: Stewie
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 07:20 PM

There is a version of this on Coope, Boyes and Simpson's 'Falling Slowly' CD.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Little man you've had a busy day - Lyrics
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 06:39 PM

Thanks, Julian!

Subject: RE: Little man you've had a busy day - Lyrics
From: GUEST,Julian Roberts
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 12:53 AM

Little Girl you're crying, I know why you're blue,
Someone stole your tricycle away.
Time to go to bed now,
Little girl you've had a busy day.

Suzie broke your dolly, tell you what we'll do.
Dad'll buy a new one right away.
Time to close your eyes now,
Little girl you've had a busy day.

You've been playing house dear, your daily work is done,
The "dishes" dried and out of sight.
Put away your toys now, it's time to go to sleep.
Your play is over for tonight.

Come and say your prayers now, 'fore you sleep away.
God bless mother, dad, and brother too.
Rest yourself in sleep now,
Little girl you've had a busy day.


(I had two sons and two daughters. They all got rocked to sleep to this song in both versions. The lyrics above are mine. [e-mail])

Subject: RE: Little man you've had a busy day - Lyrics
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 07 Apr 02 - 12:24 AM

Yeah, but it's only giving you the first part of the tune. Better check out the Robeson recording, if that's the only one currently available. Ask Dick at Camsco!

Sandy (whose mother also sang it, lo, those many years ago)

Subject: RE: Little man you've had a busy day - Lyrics
From: GUEST,guest, Lori
Date: 06 Apr 02 - 02:42 AM

You can listen to a modern version of this song at http://www.xs4all.nl/~yni/newpage8.htm.

My grandma used to sing this to my brother when she rocked him to sleep.

Subject: RE:
From: fat B****rd
Date: 18 Mar 01 - 09:21 AM

rock'n'roll

Subject: RE.... Oh!
From: GUEST,Nancy
Date: 17 Mar 01 - 04:00 PM

Drrrrr....just getting the hang of this...thanks so much Wolfgang, for these words...I'll have to get the CD for the melody to the bridge, don't think every verse was the same.....

This is a wonderful site and resource!!!

thanks again, nancy

Subject: RE: Little Man
From: GUEST,Nancy
Date: 17 Mar 01 - 03:49 PM

Hmmmm...the song I'm looking for has these lyrics....

Little man you're crying, I know why you're blue
Someone stole your kiddy car away
Better go to sleep now, Little man you've had a busy day...

Someone stole your marbles? Tell you what I'll do
Daddy will buy you new ones right away
Beetter go...

Is this the same song as on the CD, I wonder? Any help will be appreciated...I know there was a bridge but can't remember it at all...

Thanks...

nancy

Subject: RE:Little Man
From: GUEST,Kivatrader
Date: 18 Jan 01 - 01:06 PM

My mother used to sing that song to us --

Little man, don't cry now
Mommy knows you're tired
You have had a very busy day.
Better go to sleep now, Mommy's boy
you've had a busy day.

You've been playin' soldier
the battles are all won
the enemy is out of sight.

Close your eyes now, ...

That's all I can remember. Hope it helps.

Subject: RE: Children's favorites cd
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 17 Jan 01 - 11:45 PM

I don't think you'll be disappointed. Robeson could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

It's the second or third time I've referred to that CD to answer questions here, so it's a nice one to have. I'd never actually heard "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" although I'd seen references to it before I got the CD. We sang a corrupted version of "The Prune Song" in my giddy youth, though.

My mom (who is 84) got a real kick out of this CD too, and knew most of the words to the older stuff.