Lullaby Yodel - Jimmy Rodgers

My baby I know that you want me

Each lonely night and day

Your dear blue eyes how they haunt me

Though you’re far away

Oh why did she take you away from my arms

And leave nothing to cherish there

She’s left me so blue but when she took you too

It seemed more than I could bear

My baby I want you tonight dear

After my work is through

To rock you to sleep in my arms dear

And sing lullaby’s to you

I-dee-ho-lay-ee, oh-dee-oh-dee-ee-ee-lay-oh-ee-ee

I-dee-lay-dee-ho-lay-ee, dee-oh-dee-oh-lay-ee-oh-lay-ee

Dee-oh-dee-oh-lay-ee-ee-oh-lay-ee-ee

I dream of your baby caresses

Dimples and golden hair

I reach out to clasp you in my arms

And find only emptiness there

Your future has been the chief aim of my life

You’ll never know what it means

My plans and my schemes are all blasted it seems

For you are mine only in dreams

My baby I want you tonight dear

After my work is through

To rock you to sleep in my arms dear

And sing lullaby’s to you

Oh-dee-lay-ee-I-oh-lay-ee-oh-oh-lay-ee