SLEEP ON MOTHER, SLEEP ON
Created on 29/07/2009Latest update on 20/04/2024
Artist: Lonnie McIntorsh
Author: traditional
Label: L.o.C.
Year: 1928
Bahamian funeral song sharing a common ancestry with North East English song Sleep On Beloved. Both tap from the same source: late 19th century hymn The Christians' Good Night (Ira Sankey/Sarah Doudney).
Covers:
- 1935:
David Pappie Pryor & group [as I Bid You Goodnight on Deep River Of Song: Bahamas]
- 1966:
Pinder Family [idem; with Joseph Spence on guitar; his wife was a Pinder]
- 1968:
Incredible String Band [part of song cyclus A Very Cellular Song]
- 1969:
Grateful Dead [as And We Bid You Goodnight; influenced by the Pinder recording]
- 1972:
- 1974:
- 1975:
- 1978:
- 1985:
David Byrne [for dance project The Knee Play]
- 1988:
- 1991:
- 1992:
- 1994:
- 1995:
Waterson-Carthy [as Sleep On Beloved]
- 1998:
Roland Van Campenhout [as Betcha Goodnight; his ex wife, mother of their daughter, is named Betje and shares credits (Elisabeth Wins)]
- 2000:
- 2003:
- 2017:
North Mississippi Allstars [as Bid You Goodnight]
