Moonshine Lullaby
"Moonshine Lullaby" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin. It was first performed by Ethel Merman.[1] (It was not used in the 1950 film version.) Other singers to have recorded the song include Bernadette Peters in 1999,[2] Doris Day,[3] and Mary Martin in 1957.[4] The song itself is considered a lullaby, but the lyrics are about a still where moonshine is brewed illegally.[5]
Lyrics
[edit]Annie:
- Behind the hill
- There's a busy little still
- Where your Pappy's workin' in the moonlight
- Your lovin' paw
- Isn't quite within the law
- So he's hidin' there behind the hill
- Bye bye baby
- Stop your yawnin'
- Don't cry baby
- Day will be dawning
- And when it does
- From the mountain where he wuz
- He'll be coming with jug of moonshine
- So count your sheep
- Mama's singing you to sleep
- With the Moonshine Lullaby
Trio: Loo Loo
- Behind the hill
- There's a busy little still
- Where your Pappy's workin' in the moonlight
- Your lovin' paw
- Isn't quite within the law
- So he's hidin' there behind the hill
Annie and Trio:
- Bye bye baby
- Stop your yawnin'
- Don't cry baby
- Day will be dawning
Trio:
- And when it does
- From the mountain where he wuz
- He'll be coming with jug of moonshine
Annie:
- So count your sheep
- Mama's singing you to sleep
- With the Moonshine Lullaby
Kids:
- Dream of Pappy
- Very happy
- With his jug of mountain rye
Annie:
- So count your sheep
- Mama's singing you to sleep
- With the Moonshine Lullaby
References
[edit]- ^ Mordden, Ethan (27 August 1999). Beautiful Mornin' : The Broadway Musical in the 1940s: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-19-535176-7.
- ^ "Bernadette Peters' "Moonshine Lullaby"". YouTube. 16 September 2010. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ^ "Doris Day's "Moonshine Lullaby"". YouTube. 29 July 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ^ "Mary Martin's "Moonshine Lullaby"". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2013-12-29. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ^ "Moonshine Lullaby". ST Lyrics. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
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