Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody 1918

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 15 Sept 2007
2007

Mammy mine,
your little rolling stone that rolled away;
strolled away;
Mammy mine,
your rollin' stone is rollin' home today;
there to stay.
Just to see your smilin' face,
smile a welcome sign;
when I'm in your fond embrace,
listen Mammy mine.

RockaBye your baby
with a Dixie melody;
when you croon, croon a tune,
from the heart of Dixie.
Just hang my cradle, Mammy mine,
right on that Mason Dixon line,
and swing it from Virginia,
to Tennessee with all the love that's in yer.
"Weep no more my lady,"
sing that song again for me;
and "Old Black Joe"
just as though you had me on your knee;
a million baby kisses I'll deliver,
the minute that you sing the Swanee River;
RockaBye your rockabye baby
with a Dixie melody.

RockaBye your baby
with a Dixie melody;
when you croon, croon a tune,
from the heart of Dixie.
Just hang my cradle, Mammy mine,
right on that Mason Dixon line,
and swing it from Virginia,
to Tennessee with all the love that's in yer.
"Weep no more my lady,"
sing that song again for me;
and "Old Black Joe"
just as though you had me on your knee;
a million baby kisses I'll deliver,
the minute that you sing the Swanee River;
RockaBye your rockabye baby
with a Dixie melody.

Any time,
I hear a Mammy sing her babe to sleep;
slumber deep;
that's the time,
the shadows round my heart begin to creep;
and I weep.
Wonder why I went away,
what a fool I've been;
take me back to yesterday,
in your arms again.

RockaBye your baby
with a Dixie melody;
when you croon, croon a tune,
from the heart of Dixie.
Just hang my cradle, Mammy mine,
right on that Mason Dixon line,
and swing it from Virginia,
to Tennessee with all the love that's in yer.
"Weep no more my lady,"
sing that song again for me;
and "Old Black Joe"
just as though you had me on your knee;
a million baby kisses I'll deliver,
the minute that you sing the Swanee River;
RockaBye your rockabye baby
with a Dixie melody.

RockaBye your baby
with a Dixie melody;
when you croon, croon a tune,
from the heart of Dixie.
Just hang my cradle, Mammy mine,
right on that Mason Dixon line,
and swing it from Virginia,
to Tennessee with all the love that's in yer.
"Weep no more my lady,"
sing that song again for me;
and "Old Black Joe"
just as though you had me on your knee;
a million baby kisses I'll deliver,
the minute that you sing the Swanee River;
RockaBye your rockabye baby
with a Dixie melody.

Soft karaoke
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lyric
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Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody 1918
Music by Jean Schwartz
Lyrics by Sam M.Lewis & Joe Young
© MCMXVIII by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.  New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 15 September 2007 at 2.26pm
in association with  Doug Grierson
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