Mammy's Lullaby / music by Lee S. Roberts; words by Will Callahan

Authors

Lee S. Roberts
Will Callahan
Forster Music Publisher (Chicago)

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ISBN

MUM00682, 0077

Description

Cover: drawing of sunset over a river; description reads a dreamy southern waltz (see 431); Publisher: Forster Music Publisher (Chicago)

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States

Relational Format

music score

Original Format

scores

Original Collection

Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

Finding Aid

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids/322

Lyrics

Lyrics:
Close yoh dreamy eyes an' lay yoh head on Mammy's breast, Stahs ah in de skies an birds ah sleepin' in de nest, Nighttime is heah, honey don't feah, Yoh on Mammy's ahm; Great big yallah moon a shinin' down upon de stream, Mammy's little coon will soon be floatin' in a dream, Slumbah awhile, mah honey chile, Yoh Mammy will keep yoh from hahm, Go to sleep, wiv yoh head on yoh Mammy's breast Cause Mammy knows her dusky rose is tiahed an' longin' fo' rest; Go to sleep while de shaders creep, Des dream away till break ob day, An doan yoh eben peep In dah sugah cane de owl's a hootin' to de moon, Down along de lane I heah de darkies softly croon, Now hushabye, honey, don't cry, But des close yoh eyes; When de mawnin' come an' all de birds begin to cheep Mammy's sugah plum a goin' to waken from his sleep Des like a flow'n kissed by de show'h when rain drops come down from de sky. Yoh Mammy's pickaninny, de fin est an' de best, De pride of old Virginny So slumba, my honey, an' rest Go to sleep, Go to sleep.

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