675. Lullaby
'Lullaby.' Sung by J. Hauser of Pfafftown, Forsyth county; recorded at Durham, July 28, 1923. Additional titles : 'O Birdie' and 'Put Me in My Little Bed,' BSM 279-80; also for text of second stanza of 'Molly Darling,' the chorus of which has identical text (ibid. 608).
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I'm tired birdie, now,-
I do not care to hear you sing.
You sang your hap - py songs all day, — now put your head be-neath your wing.
Come sis - ter, come kiss me good-night, for I my ev-ening
prayer have said, I'm tired now and sleep - y too ; —
put my lit - tie bed.
For melodic relationship cf. ***Ford 330; the stanza here has eight additional measures which our version lacks.
Scale : Heptachordal, plagal. Tonal Center : f. Structure : abab^cdab^ (2,2,2, 2,2,2,2,2) = aa^ba^ (4,4,4,4) = Reprisenbar.