Johnny Cash - Missouri Waltz

Hush a bye my baby slumber time is coming soon
Rest your head on mommie?s breast while daddy hums a tune
Are the old folks were humming the banjos were strumming
And the soft breezes sigh as in days long gone by
Way down in Missouri where I heard this melody
When I was a little fellow on my mommie's knee
The old folks were humming the banjos were strumming so sweet and low
Hush a bye my baby go to sleep on daddy?s knee
Journey back to Dixie Land in dreams again with me
Oh, it seems like your daddy was there once again
And the old folks were strumming that same old refrain
Way down in Missouri when I heard this lullaby
While the stars were blinking and the moon was shining high
Are the old folks were humming the banjos were strumming so sweet and low

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[missZiggy549]

thumbs up if you came here because of Winter's bone. :)

[OleSouthernGentleman]

@missZiggy549

I've never heard of that. Sounds like I'll have to check it out =]

[daisysgirl54]

Thumbs up if you're from good old Missouri!!!!

[MuszkaFritz]

@OleSouthernGentleman

Just watched it. Stunning.

[jetfreak4]

@greble123 Yes I've lived in Missouri for over 25 years. Yes we are the midwest...the midwest is the 12-state region defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.

[greble123]

@nclrza thank you from missouri

[JarcoNation1]

@jetfreak4 ill agree with that

[jetfreak4]

@JarcoNation1 Maybe I can't, but the majority of Missourians don't speak it. Looking at any dialect map confirms this. As far as being more agricultural than industrial, we are far more industrial than any Southern state. Iowa and Minnesota are even more agricultural and less industrial than we are. Same goes today for any state in the Midwest. Southern pride or not, Missouri started out a border state and became Midwestern after the Civil War. Harry Truman detested this song.

[JarcoNation1]

@jetfreak4 I agree with a lot of that, but we never quit speaking "southern," we have our own southern twang, "southern" isnt one accent. We are more agrucultural than industrial, thats no debate. I respect what you have to say, and in some ways i may not be as well educated, but you cant take away someone's southern pride. Our state was one of the most fought in state during the civil war. People grow up differently, raised differently, but you cant generalize all of us. God Bless!

[jetfreak4]

@JarcoNation1 We quit growing southern crops for the most part, we quit talking southern, we became an industrial state, our climate is not exactly southern, our mindset isn't southern (politically we are a swing state). I'm not saying all of Missouri has left Dixieland behind, but the only places you'll find true Southern culture are in the far southern parts.