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Sheet Music - Missouri WaltzEntry/Object ID
2024.11.5Scope and Content
The four-page Sheet music for the score "Hush-a-bye, Ma Baby" aka "Missouri Waltz". Renewal Copyright © 1943 Forster Music Publisher, Inc., Chicago, ILL. The cover is a red and green scene of a riverboat on water. It also has a photograph of Bing Crosby. The back cover has the music for a couple lines of "My Best To You" and "Just To Be Near You" both with Words by Gene Willadsen and Music by Isham Jones.Context
Lyric by J. R. Shannon, Arr. for piano by Frederic Knight Logan. . Music from an Original Melody by John Valentine Eppel.
Hush-a-bye, ma baby. slumber time is comin' soon; Rest yo' head upon ma breast while Mammy hums a tune;
The sandman is calling' where shadows are fallin', While the soft breezes sigh as in days long gone by
Way down in Missouri where I heard this melody, When I was a Pick-a-ninny on ma Mammy's knee,
The darkies were hummin', Their banjos were strummin' So sweet and low ____ Strum, strum, strum, strum, strum,
Seems I hear those banjos playin' once again, ____Hum, hum, hum, hum, hum, That same old plaintive strain.
Hear that mournful melody, It just haunts you the whole day long,
And you wander in dreams back to Dixie it seems, When you hear that old time song.
Hush-a-bye, ma baby, go to sleep on Mammy's knee, Journey back to Dixie land in dreams again with me;
It seems like yo Mammy was there once again, And the darkies were strummin' that same old refrain.
Way down in Missouri where I learned this lullaby,
When the stars were blinkin' and the moon was climbin' high, And I hear Mammy Cloe, as in days long ago Singin' hush a byeLexicon
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