Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GULLA LULLABY, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY


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First Line: The buzzard and the butterfly playing in the field
Last Line: Nobody home but the baby
Subject(s): Babies; Infants


The Buzzard and the Butterfly playing in the field,
Nobody home but the baby
Butterfly shivers in his red-speckled wings,
Nobody home but the baby
Butterfly giggles, "How sweet the fields taste!
I'll eat and I'll eat -- not a honey drop will waste;
Death can't catch me till there's nothing left to eat!"
Long eyed Buzzard sleeks his feathers with his beak --
"Death will be a-coming either this week or next week . . ."
Go to sleep my little baby

Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep my little baby
Loo-loo-loo-lulla-loo-loo-loo
Nobody home but the baby





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