Chris sings a lullaby she learnt as a child in East Hull. At the time of recording she thought this was an original song from her family. The words and music have since been traced to a song written in 1890 or 1893 by Hattie Starr called 'My Alabama Coon', aka 'Go to sleep my little piccaninny', also linked to a later version called 'Stay in your own back yard',  https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sharris_a/22/

Words of Chris's version
Go to sleep, Mammy's little baby/Bogey man'll get you if you don't/Hushaby, lullaby, mummy's little baby/Mummy's little Alabala coo.

The words have become a shorter version of the original chorus and lost their original connotations. When using this song on the project the origins hadn't been discovered. Chris said she'd always seen the bogey man as a comic figure and not really something to be frightened of. In the American original 'Bogey man' is replaced by 'Brer Fox'.

Ultima modifica

• 10/23/2024

Creator

• Christina
• Awre, Gabrielle

Contributori

• Awre, Gabrielle
• Christina

Subject

• East Hull lullaby
• The Hidden Art of the Lullaby
• Mummy's little Alabama Coon
• Lullaby
• Alabala coo
• Go to sleep
• Hattie Starr
• Christina L

Publisher

• The University of Hull

Language

• eng

Identifier

• hull:18345

Date created

• 2017