I Guess You'd Better Hush! Hush! Hush! 1901

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 06 Mar 2007
2007

When the hoot owl's am a cryin'
and the hats they am a flyin'
there's a great big goblin travels 'round
watchin' out for colored chillen
who's been stealin' water millen.
And from mammy after dark is found.
If you's good he'll never get yer
but if you's bad I bet yer
that some time when you is actin' black.
Mister Gobelin'll grab yer,
in his great big bag he'll nab yer
and you never never can come back.

So I guess you'd better
hush! hush! hush! my honey!
'Cause I know he's hiding
way out yonder in the brush.
If he sees you doing wrong
he'll take you right along
so I guess you'd better
hush! hush! hush! hush!

Far away he'll surely take you,
and to punish you he'll make yer
just as white as any white folks am.
Ev'ry day you'll get a lickin'
and you'll never taste no chicken
like your mammy always gives her lamb.
If you run away he'd catch yer
then he'd beat and bite and scratch yer,
till you'd wish that you were dead
that's true!
So you best be good, my baby,
if you don't I'll call him may be
'cause I knows he's watchin' out for you.

So I guess you'd better
hush! hush! hush! my honey!
'Cause I know he's hiding
way out yonder in the brush.
If he sees you doing wrong
he'll take you right along
so I guess you'd better
hush! hush! hush! hush!

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric
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I Guess You'd Better Hush! Hush! Hush! 1901
Written and Composed by Julia Marion Manley
© 1901 by Sol Bloom
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sung by Miss Norma Whalley
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 06 March 2007 at 12.52am
in association with Doug Grierson
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