Artist: Harriet McClintock
Author: traditional
Label: Rounder
Year: 1940
John A. Lomax recording. Lullaby.
Covers:
American Ballad Singers [as Go To Sleep]
Mrs. Sidney Carter [Sid Hemphill's daughter as Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby; another Alan Lomax home-recording in Senatobia, MS with barking dog in the background; released on Southern Journey Vol. 3 - 61 Highway Mississippi]
Bessie Jones [Alan Lomax recording]
Mary Mabeary [another granny as Go To Sleepy, Baby; David Evans recording on the Library of Congress-cd Afro American Folk Music from Tate and Panola Counties, Mississippi]
Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss & Emmylou Harris [as Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby; song of the sirens in film O Brother, Where Art Thou? with additional lyrics by T-Bone Burnett]
Richard Johnston [with the late Jessie Mae Hemphill (Sid's granddaughter) as Chicken And Gravy]
Laïs [with Lenski as Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)