#1266 - Tuck Me to Sleep

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• Composer:
  • George W. Meyer

    • #1254 - Hiawatha's Melody of Love
    • #1266 - Tuck Me to Sleep

    (1884-1595), 1921
• Also known as:
  • Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home
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• Parsons Code: XUDDDDRDDDUDURUUDUDURDDDUUUDUD¹⁾
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• Lyrics
  Old Kentucky cradled me when I was born,
  Old Kentucky how I miss your field of corn,
  Nighttime when I get to bed how I weep and toss my head,
  I'll weep no more, I'm going back instead.
  
  chorus:
  Tuck me to sleep in my old 'Tucky home
  Cover me with Dixie skies and leave me there alone
  Just let the sun kiss my cheeks every morn;
  Like the kissin' I've been missin' from my mammy since I'm gone.
  I ain't had a bit of rest, since I left my mammy's nest,
  I can always rest the best in her loving arms.
  Tuck me to sleep in my old 'Tucky home
  Let me lay there, stay there never no more to roam.
  
  Old Kentucky smile up on a lonesome shack,
  Dear old 'Tucky keep it bright till I get back.
  Make the shadows stay away from my mammy old and gray,
  She'd weep no more if she could hear me say,
  
  
  • Joe Young (1889-1939) and Sam M. Lewis (1885-1959), 1921