Baby Bye

DESCRIPTION: "Baby Bye, here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and I." "There he goes, on his toes, Tickling baby's nose!" "I believe with those six legs You and I could walk on eggs." "See! he crawls on the walls Yet he never falls."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Brown-MyGrandmothersSongbook)
KEYWORDS: baby bug nonballad
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brown-MyGrandmothersSongbook 11, "Baby Bye" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #22137
NOTES [104 words]: Although this piece seems to be rare (neither I nor Roud has ever found another version), the text in my copy of Brown-MyGrandmothersSongbook has several emendations written in the text -- none of them of any real significance. Was it just the previous owner rewriting the song? Or did that owner know another version? I have no way to tell. It is the only piece so emended. The text of this emended version runs
Baby Bye, here's a fly,
Let us watch him, you and I.
For he crawls up the walls
Yet he never falls.
I believe with six such legs
You and I could walk on eggs.
There he goes, on his toes,
Tickling baby's nose! - RBW
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File: BrGr11

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