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Moonshine Lullaby

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"Moonshine Lullaby" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin. It was first performed by Ethel Merman.^[1] (It was not used in the 1950 film version.) Other singers to have recorded the song include Bernadette Peters in 1999,^[2] Doris Day,^[3] and Mary Martin in 1957.^[4] The song itself is considered a lullaby, but the lyrics are about a still where moonshine is brewed illegally.^[5]

Lyrics

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Annie:

Behind the hill

There's a busy little still

Where your Pappy's workin' in the moonlight

Your lovin' paw

Isn't quite within the law

So he's hidin' there behind the hill

Bye bye baby

Stop your yawnin'

Don't cry baby

Day will be dawning

And when it does

From the mountain where he wuz

He'll be coming with jug of moonshine

So count your sheep

Mama's singing you to sleep

With the Moonshine Lullaby

Trio: Loo Loo

Behind the hill

There's a busy little still

Where your Pappy's workin' in the moonlight

Your lovin' paw

Isn't quite within the law

So he's hidin' there behind the hill

Annie and Trio:

Bye bye baby

Stop your yawnin'

Don't cry baby

Day will be dawning

Trio:

And when it does

From the mountain where he wuz

He'll be coming with jug of moonshine

Annie:

So count your sheep

Mama's singing you to sleep

With the Moonshine Lullaby

Kids:

Dream of Pappy

Very happy

With his jug of mountain rye

Annie:

So count your sheep

Mama's singing you to sleep

With the Moonshine Lullaby

References

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^ Mordden, Ethan (27 August 1999). Beautiful Mornin' : The Broadway Musical in the 1940s: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-19-535176-7.

^ "Bernadette Peters' "Moonshine Lullaby"". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19. Retrieved 2 October 2012.

^ "Doris Day's "Moonshine Lullaby"". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19. Retrieved 2 October 2012.

^ "Mary Martin's "Moonshine Lullaby"". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2013-12-29. Retrieved 2 October 2012.

^ "Moonshine Lullaby". ST Lyrics. Retrieved 2 October 2012.

v t e Annie Get Your Gun
Characters	Annie Oakley Frank Butler Chief Sitting Bull Buffalo Bill Pawnee Bill
Adaptations	Annie Get Your Gun (film) Annie du Far-West (operetta)
Recordings	Annie Get Your Gun (1963) Annie Get Your Gun - 1986 London Cast (1986)
Music	"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" "The Girl That I Marry" "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" "There's No Business Like Show Business" "They Say It's Wonderful" "Moonshine Lullaby" "My Defenses Are Down" "I'm an Indian Too" "I Got Lost in His Arms" "Who Do You Love, I Hope?" "I Got the Sun in the Mornin'" "Anything You Can Do"

Irving Berlin

Musicals

Theatre

Film

Alexander's Ragtime Band
Annie Get Your Gun
Blue Skies
Call Me Madam
Carefree
The Cocoanuts
Easter Parade
Follow the Fleet
Hallelujah
Holiday Inn
On the Avenue
Second Fiddle
There's No Business Like Show Business
This Is the Army
Top Hat
White Christmas

Songs

"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
"All Alone"
"All by Myself"
"All of My Life"
"Always"
"Any Bonds Today?"
"Anything You Can Do"
"At the Devil's Ball"
"The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)"
"Blue Skies"
"Change Partners"
"Cheek to Cheek"
"Count Your Blessings"
"A Couple of Swells"
"Daddy, Come Home"
"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly"
"Easter Parade"
"Follow the Crowd"
"For Your Country and My Country"
"Get Thee Behind Me Satan"
"The Girl That I Marry"
"God Bless America"
"Goodbye, France"
"Happy Holiday"
"Heat Wave"
"Heaven Watch the Philippines"
"How About Me?"
"How Deep Is the Ocean?"
"How's Chances?"
"I Got Lost in His Arms"
"I Got the Sun in the Mornin' (and the Moon at Night)"
"I Love a Piano"
"I Never Had a Chance"
"I Used to Be Color Blind"
"I Want To Go Back To Michigan"
"I'm an Indian Too"
"I'm Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind"
"I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket"
"I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now"
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"
"Isn't This a Lovely Day?"
"It's a Lovely Day Today"
"It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow"
"Lazy"
"Let Yourself Go"
"Let's All Be Americans Now
"Let's Face the Music and Dance"
"Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee"
"Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk"
"Mandy"
"Moonshine Lullaby"
"My Defenses Are Down"
"The Near Future"
"No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)"
"Now It Can Be Told"
"Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"
"Play a Simple Melody"
"A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody"
"Puttin' On the Ritz"
"Reaching for the Moon"
"Remember"
"San Francisco Bound"
"Say It Isn't So"
"Say It with Music"
"Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone"
"Sisters"
"Slumming on Park Avenue"
"The Song Is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)"
"Stay Down Here Where You Belong"
"Steppin' Out with My Baby"
"Supper Time"
"That International Rag"
"That Mysterious Rag"
"There's No Business Like Show Business"
"They Say It's Wonderful"
"They Were All Out of Step But Jim"
"This Year's Kisses"
"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails"
"What'll I Do"
"When I Lost You"
"White Christmas"
"Who Do You Love, I Hope?"
"With You"
"You Can Have Him"
"You Can't Get a Man with a Gun"
"You Keep Coming Back Like a Song"
"You'd Be Surprised"
"You're Just in Love"
"You're Laughing at Me"

Ellin Berlin (wife)
Mary Ellin Barrett (daughter)

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