GO TO SLEEP, LITTLE BABY

Created on 16/06/2001
Latest update on 17/12/2023

Artist: Harriet McClintock
Author: traditional
Label: Rounder
Year: 1940

John A. Lomax recording. Lullaby.

Covers:

1941:

American Ballad Singers [as Go To Sleep]

1959:

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]

1959:

Bessie Jones [Alan Lomax recording]

1971:

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]

2000:

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]

2001:

Richard Johnston [with the late Jessie Mae Hemphill (Sid's granddaughter) as Chicken And Gravy]

2009:

Laïs [with Lenski as Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby]

2018:

Shemekia Copeland

2020:

Haden Triplets

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