Hush up, baby, don't say a word,
Papa's going to buy you a mocking bird.

If it can't whistle, and it can't sing.
Papa's going to buy you a diamond ring.


If that diamond ring turns to brass,
Papa's going to buy you a looking glass.


If that looking glass gets broke,
Papa's going to buy you a Billy goat.

If that Bily goat runs away
Papa's going to buy you another today.


abc | midi | pdf

---

Source: Singing Together, Summer 1951, BBC Publications

Notes:
From "Twelve Songs for Children (English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians)". Maud Karpeles and the Oxford Univeristy Press.

Roud: 470 (Search Roud index at VWML)
Laws:
Child: