Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby by Emmylou Harris (Ft. Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch)
Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby by Emmylou Harris (Ft. Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch)

Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby

Emmylou Harris & Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch * Track #10 On O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Music from the Motion Picture)

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Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby by Emmylou Harris (Ft. Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch)

Release Date
Tue Dec 05 2000
Performed by
Emmylou HarrisAlison Krauss & Gillian Welch
Produced by
T Bone Burnett
Writed by
T Bone Burnett & Gillian Welch & Traditional
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This is a traditional (and disturbing) folktale song, sung in the first person by the father of a baby. The mother has run off with another man. He’s singing this lullaby to calm the baby; he’s preparing to poison the child as he sees no other recourse.

Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby Lyrics

Go to sleep, you little baby
(Go to sleep, you little babe)
Go to sleep, you little baby
(Go to sleep, you little babe)
Your mama's gone away and your daddy's gonna stay
Didn't leave nobody but the baby

Go to sleep, you little baby
(Go to sleep, you little babe)
Go to sleep, you little baby
(Go to sleep, you little babe)
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 babe)
You're a sweet little baby
(You're a sweet little babe)
Honey in the rock and the sugar don't stop
Gonna bring a bottle to the baby

Don't you weep, pretty baby
(Don't you weep, pretty babe)
Don't you weep, pretty baby
(Don't you weep, pretty babe)
She's long gone with her red shoes on
Gonna need another lovin' baby

Go to sleep, little baby
(Go to sleep, you little babe)
Go to sleep, little baby
(Go to sleep, you little babe)
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 babe)
Go to sleep, you little baby
(Go to sleep, you little babe)
Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones
And be my ever-lovin' baby

Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby Q&A

Who wrote Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby's ?

Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby was written by T Bone Burnett & Gillian Welch & Traditional.

Who produced Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby's ?

Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby was produced by T Bone Burnett.

When did Emmylou Harris release Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby?

Emmylou Harris released Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby on Tue Dec 05 2000.

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