Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby Lyrics

Lyric discussion by bkat004 

Cover art for Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby lyrics by Emmylou Harris

What a beautiful song. Probably the most pristine and haunting Country melody this decade (bar Kings of Leon's Day Old Blues.)

It's obviously about the maternal seduction of the Sirens in "O Brother Where Art Thou"

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.