I rocked my 2 year old stepdaughter every single night, singing this song to her, 20+ years ago. She never wanted to go to sleep, and I had a big rocker that had belonged to my grandmother. When she was a teenager, she asked me once, "Remember when you used to rock me?". Oh, I do! It was one of my favorite times in the whole world. I had no kids of my own. She was my only baby.
At my age, (58 yrs) I'm sorry to say that I've never heard of Gillian Welch. However, her brilliant talent combined with the incomparable vocal gifts from God in Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss in this rendition is just ethereal platinum magic. I got so very swept up listening to it that there's no wonder the Cohen bros. chose to use it for their crazy-good movie.
Regardless of what music taste you have, I think anyone can hear this song and get a weird sensation well up inside them. Haunting, hypnotic, sweet, and beautiful all at the same time.
My " youngen " is 12.. he JUST found out where HIS sleepy song came from!!... SO wonderful he really thought his mama could write something like this and 2nd... he just said " Dang mama YOU can sing! Those ladies are on tv and you'd give'em a run fer thier money i KNOW IT! " Mamas heart swells with pride!
Actually..... Gillian and Emmy Lou have done it together live a few times I saw, or got a recording of. Alison was not at the Fests.. so...we missed out on her. Technically "Bluegrass" will have instruments. This? It's old time folk/gospel/appalacian. Emmy, Gillian, Alison are elite at doing Harmony. About all that's missing is Linda Ronstadt who'd done great harmony with Emmy.
Perhaps, but it’s not far off from Scottish and Irish folk songs that were brought over. It’s got more “soul” infusion. But most of bluegrass is straight up Celtic music with an American south vocal inflection.
This is real music...Thank you so much that we still have people that have voices this great so that they don't need auto tune and crap like that to mess up their natural talent...I look up to these 3 women so much!!!! Especially Allison...
I’ve been listening to the movie’s soundtrack since I was 6-7 years old. Every morning my dad would play it while driving us to school and I loved this song (along with down to the river to pray). I miss those mornings sometimes, I eventually saw the movie in high school and it made my day.
+panhead58ful Jason said "If...". Knight192 came back with "You don't know...". My comment was pointing out that that's probably why Jason said "If", because he didn't know for certain. Cool?
I've been a huge fan of the music from that movie since the first time I saw it. I love classic rock but whatever genre you may prefer, you're not human if you don't fall in love with the acapella harmonies of these three legendary superstars. Thanks for posting, as I didn't know it was these 3 classy ladies singing until I saw this. Absolutely the 2nd most beautiful harmony I've ever heard, hands down, after "Down to the River to Pray".
Holy crap! That is and always has been one of my favorite movies, I had no idea these 3 wonderful ladies sang this song for it! Just makes it even better! :)
Is this three angels singing? Sure sounds like it. I can envision hearing these voices as one rises to meet his or hers maker. So beautiful and soothing.
Oh man what angelic voices by equally angelic ladies - these are the core Americans that I have deeply admired for most of my life - their creativity knows no bounds
The song was written by singer/songwriter Gillian Welch who specializes in dark themed songs. She wrote this one based on a one verse song. I got this from her biography. In spring of 1999, T Bone Burnett came to Nashville to record the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou? At T Bone’s suggestion, Gillian wrote the Siren song "Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby", based on a single verse of a traditional lullaby.
what great voices ,no need for instruments,just blows me out of the water,you can't find the voices today, not live , in the studio they can make anyone sound great,thank you ladies for such a good rendition
Love the comforting melody contrasted by the eerie lyrics. Folk musicologist Alan Lomax collected this song during his travels in the South in the 1930s.
I must admit before the O Brother movie I did not like this kind of music, I just didn't know better and was ignorant to the beauty of it. These song gives me the chills, it's beautiful.
Pure southern singing!!!! ❤❤❤I'm missing so many southern voices...Johnny Cash,,Elvis(he may have sung Rockabilly but he was from the South)......"the voice of the South"Ralph Stanley"...miss you Ralph!! I love "Deep South " music...I'm a southern girl living in a Yankee world.I'll return to my Dixie someday😭😭😭😭
Yo-I'se still me! Ya gotta 'scuse me if I know you- I guess gettin' old -"Grundy"? Dis'? or Spoofin' jive? Clue me in-figure you wouldn't comment if no connection?!
I can get by without a reply dunno why but I ain't gonna die without knowing how to reply however I do know the the word. and it's thunderbird and the price? well that's 40 twice it wouldn't mean a thang cuz its just a chicken Wang but I'm going out with a bang so you ought hang with this fine old thang. whos only downfall is that I just can't sang.
And her voice make angels cry.....and myself aswell when im in that kinda mood.....music can make you feel many different things.....but when its so beautiful you weep.....well it doesnt get any better
Beautiful Song- When I used to bath my #2After children, I would put lotion on them and massage their cute soft baby skin with lotion (ALL while listening to my OLD CD from the Winan's (I still have the CD) & I would just sing away while they stared at me blowing bubbles, than I pick them up and dance and sing to them. Than I took my youngest (Noah) downstairs to the rocking chair, gave him his bottle & tickled his face lightly while singing to him & than he was fast asleep. My babies are #19 & #12 yrs old. Those memories are beautiful memories - seems like yesterday. I Love Them BOTH, GOD has blessed me with #2 special gifts from the Heavens Above.
That's is a true music at it's finest, kids should study and learn the true art of music as we experience it in this wonderful composition. Thank You Beautiful Ladies
Lyrics: Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe) Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe) Your mama's gone away and your daddy's gonna stay Didn't leave nobody but the baby Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe) Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe) Everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn Didn't leave nobody but the baby You're sweet, little babe (You're sweet, little babe) You're sweet, little babe (You're sweet, little babe) Honey in the rock and the sugar don't stop Gonna' bring a bottle to the baby Don't you, weep pretty babe (Don't you, weep pretty babe) Don't you, weep pretty babe (Don't you, weep pretty babe) She's long gone with her red shoes on Gonna' need another lovin' baby Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe) Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe) You and me and the Devil makes three Don't need no other lovin' baby Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe) Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe) Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones And be my ever-lovin' baby
My mother sang a version of this song to me when I was little. The lyrics don't make much sense, but they were "Go to sleep you little baby, go to sleep you little baby, and when you wake I'll bake you a cake with all the pretty little horses. One is black, and one is white, and one is the color of molasses. So go to sleep you little baby..." It just repeats from there. I always imagined a cake decorated with horses, like a carousel.
omg my grand ma and mom sang that too me too..mine was: go to sleep you little baby ,when you wake we'll patty patty cake and ride all the colored little horses, some will be pink and some will be white and some will be all the colors of molasses ,to go to sleep you little baby... and then repeat, also "O'danny boy" and "loch Lomond" my mother's great grandpa was from Aberdeen Scotland.. my dad's side west Virginia then England. oh and there was one about an ELF " I met a little elf man one day down where the lilies bloom, I asked him why he was so small and why he did not grow , he quietly looked me up and down and then he said to me, I'm quite as big for me says he, as you are big for you" ( that was it ha ha)
A rain squall coming through the area. I opened the den door so we could hear the sounds of the rain fall and I held the wife close while singing this to her. 70 is the next stop for me and while there are not many stops ahead, this one was particularly enjoyable, and she drifted off to sleep pleasantly.....in spite of my severely lacking vocal talents. A very nice post for we old fools. Thank you so much.
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I rocked my 2 year old stepdaughter every single night, singing this song to her, 20+ years ago. She never wanted to go to sleep, and I had a big rocker that had belonged to my grandmother. When she was a teenager, she asked me once, "Remember when you used to rock me?". Oh, I do! It was one of my favorite times in the whole world. I had no kids of my own. She was my only baby.
that's where "the devil makes three" comes from...
This song really makes you understand the sailors following the sirens in the Odyssey.
Reading the classics good man 👍
No effects, no auto-tune. Just pure talent.
Damn Skippy.
You got that right!
At my age, (58 yrs) I'm sorry to say that I've never heard of Gillian Welch. However, her brilliant talent combined with the incomparable vocal gifts from God in Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss in this rendition is just ethereal platinum magic. I got so very swept up listening to it that there's no wonder the Cohen bros. chose to use it for their crazy-good movie.
I agree with you! ❤
She has a lot of great songs with David Rawlings on here!
I recommend watching The Chieftains: Down The Old Plank Road - The Nashville Sessions ✨you won’t regret it ❤🍀🎻☘️🪕
Welch is great. America should be proud.
Three pure beautiful voices. no auto-tune. no effects. Just talent.
The fact that Emmylou is involved makes this so incredible. She is one of those artists that is supreme!
This song won me over for the whole movie, once I saw this scene I was hooked for the entire film. George Clooney played perfect part
He done a good job
@David Priscak #AVESATANAS
I absolutely agree. This sing was the acme of the movie
Clooney's the biggest American film star since -- my Lord, who? Gable? Jimmy Stewart?
I bet you were /wink
Regardless of what music taste you have, I think anyone can hear this song and get a weird sensation well up inside them. Haunting, hypnotic, sweet, and beautiful all at the same time.
I feel it in my soul
My " youngen " is 12.. he JUST found out where HIS sleepy song came from!!... SO wonderful he really thought his mama could write something like this and 2nd... he just said " Dang mama YOU can sing! Those ladies are on tv and you'd give'em a run fer thier money i KNOW IT! " Mamas heart swells with pride!
Kentucky hills and Appalachian Mountains is what created this sound...these ladies should have sung more often together!
Actually..... Gillian and Emmy Lou have done it together live a few times I saw, or got a recording of. Alison was not at the Fests.. so...we missed out on her.
Technically "Bluegrass" will have instruments. This? It's old time folk/gospel/appalacian.
Emmy, Gillian, Alison are elite at doing Harmony. About all that's missing is Linda Ronstadt who'd done great harmony with Emmy.
Americana
Perhaps, but it’s not far off from Scottish and Irish folk songs that were brought over. It’s got more “soul” infusion. But most of bluegrass is straight up Celtic music with an American south vocal inflection.
One time
@@rerobertson82 Brought over from the old country by the Scots-Irish immigrants during the colonial times.
No over production. No vocal gymnastics. Just a pure rendition of a simple, heartfelt lyric.
This is one of the most beautiful songs, sang by the most harmonic voices i have ever heared.
Isn’t it just lovely to hear the actual words to the song. It’s the way it used to be back in my day.
This is real music...Thank you so much that we still have people that have voices this great so that they don't need auto tune and crap like that to mess up their natural talent...I look up to these 3 women so much!!!! Especially Allison...
Incredible harmonies. God bless these women.
I’ve been listening to the movie’s soundtrack since I was 6-7 years old. Every morning my dad would play it while driving us to school and I loved this song (along with down to the river to pray). I miss those mornings sometimes, I eventually saw the movie in high school and it made my day.
Down to the river to pray is one of the most auditorily pleasing songs of all time. Allison Krauss is what I imagine angels must sound like.
I have found a whole NEW appreciation for "OLD TIMEY RELIGION" music - I can't get enough of it.
+Rene Andre If you havent already, check out the Louvin Brothers!
Nothing like it. Good for the heart and soul.
:)
Three beautiful voices that blend together like silk. Lovely!
Hell...sounds better than the movie...if u listen thru headphones, the harmonising is on point...loved it. Bluegrass in its finest!
These dear ladies...those voices still give me chill up and down the spine. Simply beautiful.
Emmylou Harris,Gillian Welch and Allison Krauss?...Oh My!!!
Gillian Harris
wife's mom could be her twin voice and look lol
What?
3 of the most distinct voices you'll ever hear ! AMAZING !
ok yes they r truly amazing
If when I die I get to hear the angels sing, I'm sure this is what they will sound like!
+jason s you don't know that to a certainty
+Knight192 probably why he said "if"...
+tallred67 why you say probably?
+panhead58ful Jason said "If...". Knight192 came back with "You don't know...". My comment was pointing out that that's probably why Jason said "If", because he didn't know for certain. Cool?
Hopefully they wont mention the devil. haha
That's how actual singers find their key before starting. No autotune there, just talent.
A chord was played. The ladies found their individual pitch in that chord.
This is pure talent. No effects, no autotune, just three beautiful voices.
Hauntingly beautiful. Gives me goosebumps.
I've been a huge fan of the music from that movie since the first time I saw it. I love classic rock but whatever genre you may prefer, you're not human if you don't fall in love with the acapella harmonies of these three legendary superstars. Thanks for posting, as I didn't know it was these 3 classy ladies singing until I saw this. Absolutely the 2nd most beautiful harmony I've ever heard, hands down, after "Down to the River to Pray".
+Victor Rowe I bought the soundtrack just for this song....... it wasn't on it!! LOL
Really? That doesn't even seem fair.
I know right, LOL but thanks to TH-cam I can listen anytime!!
+Tina W its is on there
+Tina W It's on my copy.
Simple but beautiful. Great harmonies from three great women.
Say what you will, Emmylou Harris is a beautiful women and gifted singer.
I agree on both counts.
Yes she is!!!
Thomas Pigg i agree!
I've always been amazed how she seems to get prettier with age. =)
Who would argue? 😍
They may not have written it...but they certainly did perform it. The very definition of southern charm and vocal perfection.
Holy crap! That is and always has been one of my favorite movies, I had no idea these 3 wonderful ladies sang this song for it! Just makes it even better! :)
This girl touches something she sings beautiful touches all your emotions Thank You so much the guitar adds to a beautiful accomplainment🌺🌺
Saw them do this song live...LONG time ago now!! It was great, make you want to cry....perfect harmony.
Beautiful song. What harmony.
Luv man of constant sorrow & this one, no, all of these songs, movie. Great harmony going on, etc!
Harris, Krauss and Welch! Thse ladies can sing!! Gotta love that bluegrass sound.
"You and me and the devil makes three" what a great line
Thats my favorite part i don't know why
A heavenly trio...for all precious babies...
Man this song just gives me the chills. So soothing.
Perfect match up voice! rarely see three voices going hand in hand as beautiful as this!
I love their crystal clear voices ! Beautiful , voices of angels
Is this three angels singing? Sure sounds like it. I can envision hearing these voices as one rises to meet his or hers maker. So beautiful and soothing.
Oh man what angelic voices by equally angelic ladies - these are the core Americans that I have deeply admired for most of my life - their creativity knows no bounds
The song was written by singer/songwriter Gillian Welch who specializes in dark themed songs. She wrote this one based on a one verse song. I got this from her biography. In spring of 1999, T Bone Burnett came to Nashville to record the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou? At T Bone’s suggestion, Gillian wrote the Siren song "Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby", based on a single verse of a traditional lullaby.
Such a perfect combination of beautiful voices. This scene is enchanting, mainly because of the song.
What a synthesis of natural beauty, talent and effort...
Go to Sleep baby ! Loved the Song ! O Brother Where Art Thou.
three of the most fantastic singers on this earth together...wow!
That's the first time I've cried cause of a song in most of my life. Very impressive, very powerful.
what great voices ,no need for instruments,just blows me out of the water,you can't find the voices today, not live , in the studio they can make anyone sound great,thank you ladies for such a good rendition
Love the comforting melody contrasted by the eerie lyrics. Folk musicologist Alan Lomax collected this song during his travels in the South in the 1930s.
Everytime I hear this I'm entranced. It's just fabulous.
Such beautiful harmony, I love this trio
Incredible ... These girls own it. No one comes close.
Gives me goosebumps to listen to this song. Haunting yet beautiful!
Not only this song but all the songs in the movie was beautiful
how can EMMY LOU become more beautiful as she ages ?
Couldn't tell ya how much I love this song.
I must admit before the O Brother movie I did not like this kind of music, I just didn't know better and was ignorant to the beauty of it. These song gives me the chills, it's beautiful.
wow they are even breathing in harmony. awesome
Ole Folk! Absolutely the most enchantingly beautiful song and voices.
Love this song . Simple , but makes you visualise . Talented ladies xx
excellent great voices fabulous balance take a bow girls top mark's fro me
Pure southern singing!!!! ❤❤❤I'm missing so many southern voices...Johnny Cash,,Elvis(he may have sung Rockabilly but he was from the South)......"the voice of the South"Ralph Stanley"...miss you Ralph!! I love "Deep South " music...I'm a southern girl living in a Yankee world.I'll return to my Dixie someday😭😭😭😭
In some parts of Africa this song is still sung but in local languages and it just happened i was looking for the song and landed here good voices
let's not lose sight of the beauty inherent in these lyrics, and in the music
Absolutely Incredible live performance
Talk about three beautiful voices singing in incredible harmony
Love it. Perfect harmony. :-) Three talented women.
Great job, beautiful and very suggestive song. 'Don't need no other lovin' baby' indeed!
I love Emmy and Allison harmonizing together!
Jan h have
chauvinism jv
James Land is that you grundy
Yo-I'se still me! Ya gotta 'scuse me if I know you- I guess gettin' old -"Grundy"? Dis'? or Spoofin' jive? Clue me in-figure you wouldn't comment if no connection?!
dennis ice
Lost in Ozone_What's the reply?
I can get by without a reply dunno why but I ain't gonna die without knowing how to reply however I do know the the word. and it's thunderbird and the price? well that's 40 twice it wouldn't mean a thang cuz its just a chicken Wang but I'm going out with a bang so you ought hang with this fine old thang. whos only downfall is that I just can't sang.
They just left his heart!.........God Bless Kentucky! (specially Louisville!)
Music Krazy that’s my city!!
And her voice make angels cry.....and myself aswell when im in that kinda mood.....music can make you feel many different things.....but when its so beautiful you weep.....well it doesnt get any better
this is the reason why i bought the soundtrack to Oh, Brother, along with all the other outstanding music on it.
Harmony like a fine tuned violin!
Hmmmm.. a violin is a melodic instrument (sometimes with a few double stops and arpeggios thrown in).
LOVE LOVE this song! Makes ya feel good inside!
Beautiful Song- When I used to bath my #2After children, I would put lotion on them and massage their cute soft baby skin with lotion (ALL while listening to my OLD CD from the Winan's (I still have the CD) & I would just sing away while they stared at me blowing bubbles, than I pick them up and dance and sing to them. Than I took my youngest (Noah) downstairs to the rocking chair, gave him his bottle & tickled his face lightly while singing to him & than he was fast asleep. My babies are #19 & #12 yrs old. Those memories are beautiful memories - seems like yesterday. I Love Them BOTH, GOD has blessed me with #2 special gifts from the Heavens Above.
You are an excellent Mother, your children are so blessed to have a Mother such as you..
God Bless You Mam
Just finding this now, it sounds exactly like it does in the movie. I usually expect them to touch stuff up in post. But wow!! What an amazing trip
Gillian looks like the perfect "mountain girl" to me and they all sing like angels.
Such beautiful voices and EmmyLou is still smokin hot!!!
What a combo
3 of the best voices on earth today
Wow
That's is a true music at it's finest, kids should study and learn the true art of music as we experience it in this wonderful composition. Thank You Beautiful Ladies
Lyrics:
Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe)
Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe)
Your mama's gone away and your daddy's gonna stay
Didn't leave nobody but the baby
Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe)
Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe)
Everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn
Didn't leave nobody but the baby
You're sweet, little babe (You're sweet, little babe)
You're sweet, little babe (You're sweet, little babe)
Honey in the rock and the sugar don't stop
Gonna' bring a bottle to the baby
Don't you, weep pretty babe (Don't you, weep pretty babe)
Don't you, weep pretty babe (Don't you, weep pretty babe)
She's long gone with her red shoes on
Gonna' need another lovin' baby
Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe)
Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe)
You and me and the Devil makes three
Don't need no other lovin' baby
Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe)
Go to sleep you little babe (Go to sleep you little babe)
Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones
And be my ever-lovin' baby
It's simply wonderful music and harmony!
great movie... great music and think if I put this on replay... I would be able to sleep,... damn harmonies are so...zzzzzzzzz
This is the soul-satisfying "You know you're alive whether you're singing it or listening to it" kind of music.
These ladies are gorgeous, and the song is Exquisite, I could listen to them forever. Like in these times. Stay safe.
Just WOW. ACAPELLA! fabulous
I could watch that movie and listen to the music over and over!
My mother sang a version of this song to me when I was little. The lyrics don't make much sense, but they were
"Go to sleep you little baby, go to sleep you little baby, and when you wake I'll bake you a cake with all the pretty little horses. One is black, and one is white, and one is the color of molasses. So go to sleep you little baby..."
It just repeats from there. I always imagined a cake decorated with horses, like a carousel.
It sounds like your mom blended it a bit with "All the Pretty Little Horses." Not quite the same, but the naming horse colors is similar.
omg my grand ma and mom sang that too me too..mine was:
go to sleep you little baby ,when you wake we'll patty patty cake and ride all the colored little horses, some will be pink and some will be white and some will be all the colors of molasses ,to go to sleep you little baby... and then repeat,
also "O'danny boy"
and "loch Lomond"
my mother's great grandpa was from Aberdeen Scotland..
my dad's side west Virginia then England.
oh and there was one about an ELF
"
I met a little elf man one day down where the lilies bloom, I asked him why he was so small and why he did not grow , he quietly looked me up and down and then he said to me, I'm quite as big for me says he, as you are big for you"
( that was it ha ha)
I thought they said that they wrote the song for the movie O brother?
Thank you both Cat and Cal - makes more sense as a genuine lulluby now. Love it.
Mistress Dreama Wonderful story🍀
These ladies need to sing more together!!!!
Wonderful job ladies.
A rain squall coming through the area.
I opened the den door so we could hear the sounds of the rain fall and I held the wife close while singing this to her.
70 is the next stop for me and while there are not many stops ahead, this one was particularly enjoyable, and she drifted off to sleep pleasantly.....in spite of my severely lacking vocal talents.
A very nice post for we old fools.
Thank you so much.
harmony to perfection..
yes!
Fantastic harmonizing. Great movie too.
They have the best harmonies.
@blunthead27 It's called talent.Three of the best female bluegrass singers ever to grace the stage.
God, that's beautiful.
Emmylou Harris is one of the most beautiful and talented women to walk this planet.
This is for my little Lilliana, just wanted to her schatzie too! Rest in Jesus arms, you will be missed so much!