It’s a hand-me-down, hand-me-down Handed to me By my grandmother’s grandma And her family A couple of verses of sweet melody To sing all our babies to sleep
La la la la La la la la La la la la la la
So when it’s dreamtime, my darlin’ I’ll turn off the lights While you close your sleepy blue eyes And like my mother before me I’ll sing you to sleep To the wild pony lullaby
See ’em dancin’ and prancin’ And whirlin’s around on your eyelids Behind you closed eyes It’s the dreamworld you find When you follow the sound Of the wild pony lullaby
No one knows where it came from But i’d like to believe That the angels were listenin’ One dark winter’s eve To a cold westbound wagon And a small baby’s cries That they sent this ol’ song to relieve
