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HUSH T’ BOO-LA Sung by: Norman Kennedy Recorded in Mountain View, AR 4/16/66 Click here to listen to the original recording (Comment by Mr. Kennedy: “This is supposed to be a lullaby, you see.”) Chorus: Hush t’ boo-la, it's I’m your ma, Hush t’boo-la, my Bobby-o. Hush t-boo-la, now I’m your ma, But the de’il can . . . your daddy-o. When I was no but sweet sixteen, And beauty scarcely bloomin’-o. Little, little did I think That by seventeen I’d be greetin’-o. (Chorus) If I had been a better lass, And done my mommy’s biddin’-o, Far and farther would I have kept Frae the young lads and the gloamin’-o. (Chorus) The plough (?) boy . . . the . . . They’re false and they’re deceivin’-o. They’ll . . . their horses and their . . . And keep their lassies waitin’-o. (Chorus) (Almeda Riddle: "My, I wish I was sixteen years old. I'd follow him all over everywhere. My, what a voice. What a song!" Mr. Kennedy: “She’s saying to the baby, ‘Hush t’boo-la, I’m your ma, I’m your mommy, but the Devil knows who’s your daddy.’” Riddle: “I have . . . I have read that in the old collections, but I have never heard it sung before. I think it’s beautiful.” ??: “There’s a record of it.”) |
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