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01 Sep 10 - 08:29 PM (#2978083) Subject: ADD: Bye'm Bye From: Joe Offer I actually referred to this song in an attempt to make a wisecrack in a Bobert thread, but then I discovered that there may be no thread on this lovely song. So...I found the lyrics on the Sally Rogers Website. I learned the song from a Weavers recording, with Ronnie Gilbert singing lead. Anybody know background information or other versions? -Joe- BYE'M BYE By'm bye, By'm bye; Stars shining Number, number one, number two, number three, Oh, my! By'm Bye, By'm Bye Oh, my! By'm Bye. By'm bye, By'm bye; Stars shining Number, number four, number five, number six, Oh, my! By'm Bye, By'm Bye Oh, my! By'm Bye. By'm bye, By'm bye; Stars shining Number, number seven, number eight, number nine, number ten, Oh, my! By'm Bye, By'm Bye Oh, my! By'm Bye. Roud says it's in Sandburg's New American Songbag (1950) p. 19; and again in Ruth Crawford Seeger's American Folk Songs for Children (1948) p.71 It's also in Music in Our Town the 1956 second-grade school songbook from Silver Burdett. |
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02 Sep 10 - 11:47 AM (#2978498) Subject: RE: Origins: Bye'm Bye / By'm Bye From: Desert Dancer If I was in Tucson I'd see who Ruth Seeger cited, but I'm not... ~ Becky in Long Beach |
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02 Sep 10 - 04:27 PM (#2978757) Subject: Lyr. Add: By'm By (spiritual fragment) From: Q (Frank Staplin) In Sandburg, 1927, The American Songbag, a note says it is a fragment of a spiritual heard in Texas in the early 1880s by Charley Thorpe of Santa Fe. Only the one verse. BY'M BY 1 By'm by, by'm by, Stahs shinin', Numbah, numbah one, Numbah two, numbah three, Good Lawd, by'm by, by'm by, Good Lawd, by'm by. Not related to the well-known spiritual, By and By.
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04 Sep 10 - 12:30 AM (#2979676) Subject: ADD Version: Bye'm Bye / By'm Bye (Seeger) From: Joe Offer Ruth Crawford Seeger (American Folk Songs for Children, 1948, page 71), cites Sandburg as her source, but lyrics and arrangement are different. She says it's from Texas. BY'M BYE By'm bye, By'm bye; Stars shining Number, number one, number two, number three, Good Lawd! By'm Bye, By'm Bye Good Lawd! By'm Bye. Finger Play: "Number, number one, number two, number three" — continuing on up to five or ten or more, if desired — may be used as a finger play. Many things may be counted aside from stars and fingers, such as buttons on clothing, or children, or stair steps, or foolish things like shoes untied. Tone Play: Children echo By'm Bye without being asked, and like to join in on the numbering phrase, especially if it is extended through a growing series of numbers. Click to play (Ruth Crawford Seeger) |
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04 Sep 10 - 01:10 AM (#2979682) Subject: RE: Origins: Bye'm Bye / By'm Bye From: Dan Schatz My mother used to sing this to us when we were growing up, and now I sing it to my son. It's a beautiful lullaby. A few years ago I was playing around with it on the banjo and ended up writing another song, attached to it: Bye 'n Bye Little Baby "Bye 'n Bye" lullaby traditional, additional song by Dan Schatz Bye 'n bye Bye 'n bye Stars shining number, number one, Number two, number three, good Lord Bye 'n bye, bye 'n bye, good Lord Bye, 'n bye Bye 'n bye Bye 'n bye Stars shining number, number four, Number five, number six, good Lord Bye 'n bye, bye 'n bye, good Lord Bye, 'n bye Evening shadow's coming on You and I, my little child, are left here 'till the dawn To rock away the hours with gentle thoughts and moonlit songs And wish these days were gone Chorus: Bye 'n bye, little baby-o; it's time to go to sleep Your mother works in the weaving mills; your father's on the deep Oh baby, go to sleep Shuttles click and clatter in the mills While you lie peaceful in your cradle sheltered by these hills Your mother's shifting bobbins as they labor on the looms To give her babe a room Chorus Father is far away at sea To fight the wars of other men, it's a sailor he must be While out on deck the ocean waves bring dreams of love and home And a babe he's never known Chorus Hush now babe, there is no need. One day soon you'll go to school; you'll learn to count and read You'll grow into a better life with babies of your own And at night you'll stay at home Final Chorus: Bye 'n bye, little baby-o; it's time to go to sleep Your mother's love flies home from weaving, father's from the deep Oh baby, go to sleep Bye 'n bye Bye 'n bye Stars shining number, number seven, Number eight, number nine, number ten, good Lord Bye 'n bye, bye 'n bye, good Lord Bye, 'n bye ©2006 by Dan Schatz Thirty-six String Music Dan |
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15 May 12 - 12:24 PM (#3351153) Subject: RE: Origins: Bye'm Bye / By'm Bye From: GUEST,musicteacher9807 I'm directing an arrangement of this fragment(Robert de Cormier series, arr. Cormier-Sauter) for SSA. Thank you for the insight into the origins! |
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26 Jan 13 - 01:10 PM (#3471723) Subject: RE: Origins: Bye'm Bye / By'm Bye From: GUEST I've never heard the song, but my mother, who grew up in Southbridge MA, and always says things that are grammatically correct, says "bye'm bye" quite often. As in, "I will cook the supper bye'm bye". I don't know anyone else who uses that phrase - even my father does not say that. thank you for clarifying, just a bit |
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26 Jan 13 - 02:52 PM (#3471755) Subject: RE: Origins: Bye'm Bye / By'm Bye From: Art Thieme I recorded a separate By'an'by: The time of the year I like the best, The time when the mule walks around the press, Girls put on their gingham dresss -- by an by See this thread (click) |
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26 Jan 13 - 03:44 PM (#3471777) Subject: RE: Origins: Bye'm Bye / By'm Bye From: Airymouse Your mother is in pretty good company: Shakespeare used "by and by" to mean in the near future as opposed to "presently" , which meant "after a while" For example, "To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool and presently a beast" Also Shakespeare liked heartbeat rhythm: ta-dum ta-dum, which English professors call "iambic", so on stage "by and by" would be spoken pretty close to "by'm by". If you are looking for origins to the song, you should see if Ruth Crawford Seeger provides a source. She was pretty good about attribution.EXAMPLE I know a song called "Little Piggy", which I learned from Roger Sprung. Ruth Seeger has a markedly different version from Roger Sprung's on page 50 of Animal Folk Songs for Children. In her page of sources at the front, the song is attributed to Mrs. Vernon Shafter. |
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21 Nov 15 - 09:56 AM (#3752493) Subject: RE: Origins: Bye'm Bye / By'm Bye From: GUEST,leeneia I used to own a vinyl LP of Harry Belafonte singing spirituals, and the first song mentioned, "Stars shining, by 'n' by," was on it. I wonder where the M came from. It doesn't seem like a likely corruption of the common word "and". |