Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody Al Jolson
Words & Music by Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young & Jean Schwartz, 1918
Recorded by Al Jolson, 1918
[A] [Edim] [E7] [Cdim] [A] [Cdim] [A] [D9] [E7] [Fdim] [E7] [E7/9]
Rock - a - bye your ba - by with a Dix - ie mel - o - dy;
W[D9]hen you cr[E7]oon, [Bm7-5]croon a t[E7]une f[D]rom the h[F#m]eart of [A9]Dix - i[E]e.
[Bm]Just hang my [F#m]cra - dle, [Bm7-5]Mam - my [E7/9]mine,
R[A]ight on that[C#m7] Ma - son[C#m7-5] Dix - on [F#7]line
[Bm]And [Bm7]swing it fr[F3m]om Vir - [B7]gin - ia
[E7]To Ten - nes -[Bm7-5] see with all the [Cdim]love that's[E7/9] in [E7]ya.
"W[A]eep [E7]No [D9]More,[Cdim] My [A9]La - [A]dy"[Cdim] -- s[D9]ing t[E7]hat s[D9]ong [Cdim]for [E7/9] me,
"O[D9]ld Black [E7]Joe" [Bm7-5]just as th[E7]ough [D7]you [C#7]had me[Cdim] on your [C#7]knee;
[F#7]A mil - lion[Gdim] ba - by kis - ses [F#7]I'll de -[Gdim] liv -er
The [B7]min - ute[Bm7-5] that you sing the "[Cdim]Swan - nee [B7]Riv - [E7]er."
[A]Rock [Edim]- a - [E7]bye [Cdim]your r[A]ock - a - [C#7]bye [F#m]baby
[Cdim]With a [D9]Dix - [E7]ie [Fdim]mel -[E7/9] o - [E7]dy.
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