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Day 282 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
"Hush-a-bye, don't you cry, Go to sleep you little baby. When you wake, you shall have All the pretty little horses." The horses are described. Another verse describes a baby (lamb) left in a meadow at the mercy of the birds.
Day 282 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
"Hush-a-bye, don't you cry, Go to sleep you little baby. When you wake, you shall have All the pretty little horses." The horses are described. Another verse describes a baby (lamb) left in a meadow at the mercy of the birds.






![A Boy He Had an Auger
Day 213 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Sandburg writes: An old English song is revamped in American colleges. Spoken final lines are improvised, as follows, The Q is silent as in electricity, or The bee is not mentioned as in bumble or honey, and so on.
[from the Traditional Ballad Index] The only part of this Ill try to explain is the line about the G is silent as in fish. This may go back to [George Bernard] Shaw, who proposed to spell the word fish ghoti. Other verses and other conclusions (e.g. The Q is silent as in electricity) make even less sense. A Boy He Had an Auger](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VR9MwWTZphM/mqdefault.jpg)



