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With the Moonshine Lullaby. Trio: Loo Loo Behind the hill There's a busy little still Where your Pappy's workin' in the moonlight Your lovin' paw Isn't quite within the law So he's hidin' there behind the hill. Annie and Trio: Bye bye baby Stop your yawnin' Don't cry baby Day will be dawning. Trio: And when it does From the mountain where he wuz
In the first commercial release on the 1956 album Offbeat Folksongs, Gibson did not mention the history of the song.The next two artists to release it, Cynthia Gooding (as "All My Trials" in 1957 [5]) and Billy Faier (as "Bahaman Lullaby" in 1959 [6]), both wrote in their albums' liner notes that they each learned the song from Erik Darling.
In 1971, Angela Davis commented on a version similar to the Lomaxes': ' "All the Pretty Little Horses" is an authentic slave lullaby; it reveals the bitter feelings of Negro mothers who had to watch over their white charges while neglecting their own children.' [6]
"Hush-a-bye baby" in The Baby's Opera, A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, ca. 1877. The rhyme is generally sung to one of two tunes. The only one mentioned by the Opies in The Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes (1951) is a variant of Henry Purcell's 1686 quickstep Lillibullero, [2] but others were once popular in North America.
Lullaby by François Nicholas Riss A lullaby (/ ˈ l ʌ l ə b aɪ /), or a cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children (for adults see music and sleep). The purposes of lullabies vary. In some societies, they are used to pass down cultural knowledge or tradition.
The song was popularized by Perry Como in 1947.The recording was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-2259. The record first reached the Billboard charts on May 30, 1947, and lasted 12 weeks on the chart, peaking at No.1.
Rockabye Baby has been reviewed in the national media and child-rearing magazines Parents, Parenting, American Baby and Child. [5]Rockabye Baby! Baby's Favorite Rock Songs, which was available exclusively at Starbucks March 23-April 19, 2010, reached #3 on Billboard’s Kids' Albums chart, [6] #18 on the Billboard Independent Albums, [7] and #111 on the Billboard Top 200.
"Hush, Little Baby" is a traditional lullaby, thought to have been written in the Southern United States.The lyrics are from the point of view of a parent trying to appease an upset child by promising to give them a gift.