Moonshine Lullaby

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

Lyrics
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
 * 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
 * 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