by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
All the pretty little horses
Language: English
Hushaby, Don't you cry, Go to sleepy, little baby, When you wake, You shall have All the pretty little horses Blacks and bays, Dapples and grays Coach and six-a little horses Hushaby, Don't you cry, Go to sleepy, little baby. Hushaby! Don't you cry, Go to sleepy, little baby. Way down yonder In the meadow There's a poor little lambie, The bees and the butterflies Pecking out its eyes, The poor little thing cried, 'Mammy!' Hushaby! Don't you cry, Go to sleepy, little baby.
W. Moylan sets stanza 1
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Frandsen (b. 1956), "All the Pretty Little Horses", 1987 [ voice and guitar ], from Seven Silly Songs, no. 6, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by William Moylan (b. 1956), "All the pretty little horses", 1995, rev. 1996, stanza 1, from For a Sleeping Child Lullabies and Midnight Musings, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-09-17
Line count: 24
Word count: 84