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Does Anyone the Origins of the Song, "Go to slumber little babe, the wind's from the west"?
September 13th, 2012
Donna Buttram Barksdale wrote:
I'm looking for the origins to a vocal my grandmother used to sing to us, here's what I remember…
Go to sleep fiddling baby.
The current of air's from the west
and the turkey'southward on its nest.
and I tin can't get my rest for the baby.
The onetime sheep lost its lamb
way over in the holler,
the buzzards and butterflies
pecked out its eyes
and the poor little thing cried mammy.
If anyone knows anything about this song, perhaps even where it's sung, please let united states of america know in the comments beneath.
Cheers!
Mama Lisa
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September 13th, 2012 at 6:forty pm
That'southward odd. The first half looks like a floater that occurs in a lot of songs. I'thou well-nigh familiar with it from variations on the song that runs "Bye, my ain truthful dearest, and fare well for awhile, dadadada, I'll be back though I become ten thousand mile". The 2nd shows large similarity to the second verse of "Pretty Little Horses". I didn't know that poetry floated at all.
March 6th, 2015 at 11:20 pm
Following from childhood memory:
Get to sleep, get to sleep
Get to slumber little baby.
The buzzards and the flies
They pick at his optics
And the little thing
hollers out mammie.
Go to slumber, go to sleep
Go to sleep little baby.
When you wake
Y'all'll have some cake.
Become to sleep piffling baby.
March 12th, 2015 at iv:14 pm
I found the following version in "On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs" (1925) by Dorothy Scarborough, Ola Lee Gulledge:
Go to sleep, little baby,
When you wake
You shall have
All the mulies in the stable.
Buzzards and flies
Picking out its eyes,
Poor piffling babe crying,
Mamma, mamma!
It seems to be a version of "All the Pretty Fiddling Horses". Check out these two verses:
Hush-a-bye, don't you cry,
Go to sleepy lilliputian baby,
When you wake, you'll take cake,
And all the pretty niggling horses.
Way downwards yonder, downwards in the meadow,
There's a poor wee little lambie.
The bees and the butterflies pickin' at its eyes*,
The poor wee thing cried for her mammy.
According to Wikipedia, "The origin of this song is not fully known. Unremarkably, the song is idea to be of African American origin." [Co-ordinate to Alan Lomax'south book American Ballads and Folksongs.]
It continues: "Ane such version is provided in Alan Lomax'due south book American Ballads and Folksongs, though he makes no merits of this. 'Way down yonder, In de medder, There's a po' lil lambie, De bees an' de butterflies, Peckin' out its eyes, De po' lil lambie cried, Mammy!' Some other version contains the lyrics 'Buzzards and flies, Picking out its eyes, Pore little baby crying'. The theory would suggest that the lyrics 'po' lil lambie cried, Mammy' is in reference to the slaves who were often separated from their own families in order to serve their owners. However, this verse is very different from the rest of the lullaby, suggesting that the verse may have been added later or has a different origin than the rest of the song. The verse likewise appears in the vocal'Ole Cow' and older versions of the song 'Black Sheep, Blackness Sheep'."
January 26th, 2016 at ii:30 am
My mama sang this vocal to me when I was little…good day good day bye little black sheep…manner down yonder in the meadow….buzzards and the flies picking out there eyes…poor lilliputian thing cried mama mama…..there were other verses that I don't recall…..I thought my mama made this upward…ha…I guess non!
March 7th, 2016 at 10:58 pm
When I was in elementary school in KY, about 50 years ago, we sang a similar song. I remember it was about a lamb and the words "the bees and the butterflies swarming 'round its eyes and the poor little matter is crying mammy. This fabricated me cry, so our music teacher only had us sing it a few times because it upset me so much. Nonetheless I have never forgotten those words.
January 24th, 2017 at 6:05 pm
I call up Dad singing this to me in the rocking chair when I was little about 55 years ago. He died a few months agone and in my grief I was also trying to call back all the words to the song. All I could recal was "the buzzards and the flies a'peckin' at his eyes and the trivial sheepie hollerin' maaaaaamie." As a Kid I just liked being sung to, Dads pretty voice, his attention, and the funny sheep sound, not really thinking much of the visual of the lyrics. Yet each time I would say "sing it again, Daddy," he'd rare his head dorsum in laughter that I liked a song with such gross lyrics. Then he'd sing it again and once again. Probably my beginning really close retention of times with Dad.
Jan 25th, 2017 at 12:59 am
What a wonderful memory Julie.
June 21st, 2020 at two:15 am
My grandmother sang the following:
Get to sleepy little babe, before the boost human being gets yous
Baa sheep Baa Where's your lamb
Manner downward yonder in the valley,
The buzzards and the collywobbles pickin out his eyes
Poor lilliputian thing cryin Mammy Mammy
Poor little matter cryin Mammy
I sang it to my daughter and she was fine until I got to the part about pickin out his eyes then she would start cryin
April 16th, 2021 at v:54 pm
My grandfather sang this to me 90 years agone. I retrieve it equally existence about a black lamb left behind and I always cried when he sang it to me. I recall the emotion but not the words. All the words I remember are…
The buzzards and the flies
Are pickin' out his eyes
And the poor little sheep
Is crying Mammy.
August 7th, 2021 at 1:33 pm
"Go to sleep you niggling infant
Go to sleep yous piddling baby
Your mama'south gone away and your daddy's gone stay didn't leave nobody simply the baby,
Go to sleep you little baby
Get to sleep y'all little baby
Everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn didn't go out nobody but the baby,
Don't you weep pretty baby
Don't you cry pretty baby
She'southward long gone with her red shoes on gone run across another lovin infant,
Don't you weep pretty babe
Don't y'all weep pretty baby
You lot and me and the devil makes three don't need no other lovin baby,
Go to sleep you little baby
Get to sleep you little baby
Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones, and be my ever lovin baby
Go to sleep y'all little babe
Go to sleep you little infant
Go to sleep you petty baby…" Oh Brother Where art g