"Moonshine Lullaby" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin. It was first performed by Ethel Merman. 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 '
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
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
Annie and Trio: Bye bye baby Stop your ' 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