The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

Artist: Pete Seeger
Author: traditional
Label: Disc
Year: 1947

On 10" album Songs To Grow On (Nursery Days); in 1950 new version as lullaby All The Pretty Little Horses.

Covers:

1955:: Gordon Heath & Lee Payant [as All The Pretty Horses]
1957:: Peggy Seeger [as Go To Sleep]
1957:: Odetta [as All The Pretty Little Horses]
1958:: Alan Lomax [idem; names it the classic of Southern lullabies; his mother and grandmother worked it out on him as a toddler]
1959:: Texas Gladden [as Whole Heap Of Little Horses; reissued on Ballads And Breakdowns - Songs From The Southern Mountains Vol. 2 in the Alan Lomax Collection]
1963:: Peter, Paul & Mary [as Hush-A-Bye]
1963:: Journeymen [as All The Pretty Little Horses]
1963:: Fannie Lou Hamer [idem]
1964:: Big 3 [idem]
1965:: Esther & Abi Ofarim [as Hushaby]
1966:: Marie Laforêt [as Coule doux]
1968:: Joan Baez
1969:: Roberta Flack
1997:: Holly Cole [as All The Pretty Little Horses]
1998:: Shawn Colvin [idem]
1998:: Kristin Hersh [at the end of her cd Murder, Misery And Then Goodnight]
2001:: Calexico [as All The Pretty Horses]
2002:: Chieftains [in Nashville with Patty Griffin]
2011:: Judy Collins [as All The Pretty Horses]

HUSH-A-BYE