A popular song from 1921. (unpublished?)
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©28 February 1921.
Transcription provided by Michael Deatz.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Little speck of midnight
That’s his other name
Mammy croons her darky tunes
With much more feeling since he came
Refrain:
Pickaninny Mose, precious little lamb
“Mighty Like a Rose,” sure enough you am
Angels in the night made you black as coal
But a lily white blossoms in your soul
Playin’ in the sun by the cabin door
Makin’ everyone love you more and more
Sweeter is the song where the Swanee flows
Since you came along, Pickaninny Mose