Nellie McKay - Rockabye Your Baby lyrics
[Nellie McKay - Rockabye Your Baby lyrics]
Anytime i hear a mammy sing a babe to sleep
Slumber deep that's the time
The shadows 'round my heart begin to creep
And I weep
Wonder why I went away what a fool I've been
Take me back to yesterday in your arms again
Rockabye your baby with a Dixie melody
When you croon croon a tune
From the heart of Dixie
Just hang my cradle, Mammy mine
Right on that Mason-Dixon Line
And swing it from Virginia
To Tennessee with all the love that's in ya'
"Weep No More My Lady"
Sing that song again for me
And "Old Black Joe" just as though
You had me on your knee
A million baby kisses I'll deliver
If you will only sing that "Swanee River"
Rockabye your rockabye baby
With a Dixie melody
Slumber deep that's the time
The shadows 'round my heart begin to creep
And I weep
Wonder why I went away what a fool I've been
Take me back to yesterday in your arms again
Rockabye your baby with a Dixie melody
When you croon croon a tune
From the heart of Dixie
Just hang my cradle, Mammy mine
Right on that Mason-Dixon Line
And swing it from Virginia
To Tennessee with all the love that's in ya'
"Weep No More My Lady"
Sing that song again for me
And "Old Black Joe" just as though
You had me on your knee
A million baby kisses I'll deliver
If you will only sing that "Swanee River"
Rockabye your rockabye baby
With a Dixie melody