American Folk - Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby

Go to sleep, you little baby

(Go to sleep, you little baby)

Go to sleep, you little baby

(Go to sleep, you little baby)

Your mama's gone away and your daddy's gonna stay

Didn't leave nobody but the baby1

Go to sleep, you little baby

(Go to sleep, you little baby)

Go to sleep, you little baby

(Go to sleep, you little baby)

Everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn

Didn't leave nobody but the baby

You're a sweet little baby

(You're a sweet little baby)

You're a sweet little baby

(You're a sweet little baby)

Honey in the rock and the sugar don't stop

Gonna bring a bottle to the baby2

Don't you weep, pretty baby

(Don't you weep, pretty baby)

Don't you weep, pretty baby

(Don't you weep, pretty baby)

She's long gone with her red shoes on

Gonna need another lovin' baby3

Go to sleep, little baby

(Go to sleep, you little baby)

Go to sleep, little baby

(Go to sleep, you little baby)

You and me and the devil makes three

Don't need no other lovin' baby

Go to sleep, you little baby

(Go to sleep, you little baby)

Go to sleep, you little baby

(Go to sleep, you little baby)

Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones

And be my ever-lovin' baby.

1. The mother has abandoned her child, leaving the father alone with it.2. Preparing a drink for the baby, in lieu of its mother's milk.3. i.e. finding another man.