How can I make that happen? Here is the YouTube link, the first chorus is as I remember it but then I think both the melody and the sentiments were adapted to make them much sweeter! This song has been passed down to my grandmother from her Nanny, my mother, and I sang it to my kids. Aloo aloo aloo, underneath the sunny skies are blue, hush a bye don't ya cry mummies little angel daddies little alla balla coo. I am 83 years old and my grandmother used to sing it to me when I was small. Unfortunately the lyrics are disappearing from my memory but Mum's version started with
My mother told me that her mother sang this to her children.
Read the lyrics to the children's song Go To Sleep My Baby on BusSongs.com. Passed down several generations of Georgia natives:
mu mum used to sing this lullaby when I was a child I sang it to my daughter and now my grandson.,i have often wondered where it originated and was there other words to it , we only sing this bit
My grandmother (raised my her mammy in the Florida glades) used to sing this to me as well. My parents used to sing this, with these lyrics; And she took you down to the cotton fields and rolled you in the grass and she sang and she sang so merrily, merrily she sang this song.
My mother told me that her mother sang this to her children. Iâm 47 years old and from London, my Nan used to sing this to me and my children when we were small. This is my version . Lay him in a corn cob bed. Not a lullaby, but does it ring a bell with anyone?
Born in SE London in 1955.
(Sang to me by my mom.her mom to her. I was only 2 in 1953 when my Grandfather very sick with Cancer would sit me on his bed and sing this song to me.
Go to sleep Little babe Dawn is drawing near.
Needless to say, I havenât sang that song for many years. :-) My great-great-grandma was from the same region in the UK so that makes sense! We grew up on ptoperty so we were afraid of the flying foxes as kids. go to sleep you little baby go to sleep you little baby your momma's gone away and your daddys gonna stay didn't leave nobody but the baby go to sleep you little baby go to sleep you little baby everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn didn't leave nobody but the baby You're a sweet little baby You're a sweet little baby
I never heard it as a child . My grandmother sang this and shes gone now. My mother came from Welsh descent. Needless to say, I havenât sang that song for many years. Iâm 47 years old and from London, my Nan used to sing this to me and my children when we were small. My Grandmother had a player piano which had a roll called "Georgia Lullaby". His version was
3.1569 "Hushabye you naughty little ninny, Mama spank your bottom if you don't go to sleep, we'll sing a song and tell a little story, Time to say your prayers. I was a bit ashamed that it took me so long to realize what it was about. (Sang to me by my mom.her mom to her. as sung to me by my mum in the early 1960s ~
At 72 years of age I remember my mother singing this to me: Her version went like this;
When you wake you shall have All the pretty little horses. I am 77, my mother from Northumberland sang this to me, and I sang it to my 4 children. I still sing it to my youngest as i did with the older children too. I need to hear the song song! I'm from Wales and my grandfather used to to this song to me when we would have a "cwtch" (Welsh word for cuddle" to get us to sleep.
I sang it to my younger sisters and my children when they were little, until one day I really listened to the words. tolaloya. My grandmother sang a shortened version to me in the fifties and early sixties. My mother used to sing it to me I was born in 1961 and she in 1931. This is what I remember...
The word, picininis can also be written as: pickaninnies, picaninnies or piccaninnies. It has been interesting to read these stories and how long they last in our minds and hearts. This was sung to me over 60 yrs ago by my dad. My Grandfather used to sing this to me. This is how my great grandma sang this to me with a comforting little swat: He was also sung this song when he was a child by his father and so on on goes the history of this song through the generations of my family. My remembered version! Oh, we took you down to the cotton field and we rolled you around in the sand, and papa picked the cotton and mama sang the song and this is the song she sang: Go to sleep my little picaninny, the big Fox will get you if you don't... My grandma sang this to all 5 of her children, my mother sang it to us and I sing it to my babies ⤠I found a recording of the song by Rosa Ponselle on YouTube.
I googled this song to sing to my grandchild. My mother and sister used to sing to me: I am from London England now living in West Virginia and I have taught my wife this song along with many others.