American Ballads and Folk Songs by John A. Lomax

Author:John A. Lomax
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2013-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES

Dorothy Scarborough in her book, On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs, says that this is one of the lullabies that the Negro mammies sang to their little white charges.

Hushaby,

Don’t you cry,

Go to sleepy, little baby.

When you wake,

You shall have

All the pretty little horses—

Blacks and bays,

Dapples and grays,

Coach and six-a little horses.

Hushaby,

Don’t you cry,

Go to sleepy, little baby.

Hushaby,

Don’t you cry,

Go to sleepy, little baby.

Way down yonder

In de medder

There’s a po’ lil lambie,

De bees an’ de butterflies

Peckin’ out its eyes,

De po’ lil thing cried, “Mammy!”

Hushaby,

Don’t you cry,

Go to sleepy, little baby.

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