HUSH LITTLE BABY
Created on 07/11/2005Latest update on 04/08/2024
Artist: Edith McDonald
Author: traditional
Label: Edison
Year: 1917
American lullaby. Cecil Sharp collected two voice-only versions in North Carolina (1916) and Virginia (1918). "Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird"; mockingbirds were once held as pets indeed. President Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) had one.
Covers:
- 1929:
- 1937:
- 1939:
Bernice Haynes [John & Ruby Lomax recording]
- 1941:
- 1951:
- 1952:
- 1957:
- 1960:
- 1960:
- 1962:
- 1963:
- 1963:
- 1965:
Elvis Presley [in film Girl Happy as Puppet On A String]
- 1969:
Peter, Paul & Mary [as Mockingbird]
- 1988:
- 1990:
- 1991:
Bobby McFerrin [with Yo Yo Ma]
- 2004:
- 2005:
Eminem [as Mockingbird, top 20 US]
Lyrically related with comic blackface song Hush Little Baby Don't You Cry (credited to F. Belasco - 1884), Hambone (1952), Bo Diddley ('55) and Mockingbird ('63). Not to be confused with Go To Sleep Little Baby (see there).
