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| Emmylou Harris – Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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These lyrics are incorrect in a way that makes the song harder to understand. It's "Daddy's gone to stay" not "Daddy's gonna stay." HUGE difference. The song is sung from the pov of someone caring for a baby whose mother (presumably a slave) has gone to work in the fields. The dad is "gone to stay" so they "didn't leave nobody but the baby." |
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| Emmylou Harris – Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Or maybe it's about time travel. Since it was written over a hundred years before the film, time travel would have had to play a key role in writing it to fit that scene.
As zombie wakeup points out below, this is a slave spiritual from the 1800s. |
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