[PW] Re: ? "Swinging in a hammock" poem or song

[Elaine McHale]

You're a genius!  Thank you very much. My patron will be thrilled.

-- 
Elaine McHale
Librarian
Fairfax County (VA) Public Library
fxlibrarian at gmail.com

On 7/24/06, Karen Weiss <karen.weiss2 at verizon.net> wrote:
> I found a song "Swingin' in a Hammock" by Tot Seymour, Chas. O'Flynn,
> and Pete Wendling at the following URL
>
> http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an6089846
>
> The chorus goes:
>
> Swingin' in a hammock
> Underneath the trees
> Just you and I together
> Swayin' in the breeze
> And we'll be listnin' to a bluebird
> Singin' up above
> He says he'll be the lookout
> While we're makin' love
> As we go high, low
> Playin' peek-a-boo with all the stars up in the sky
> High, low, in a cradle made of dreams we'll watch the clouds roll by
> Nearest thing to heaven that I ever knew
> Is swingin' in the hammock
> All alone with you.
>
> I originally found it on the Levy Sheet Music Collection site but the
> sheet music was not scanned there.  So I searched with the title and
> composer and found the sheet music at the National Library of
> Australia.
>
> Karen Weiss
>
> On Jul 24, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Elaine McHale wrote:
>
> > I have a patron whose elderly mother remembers these words:
> >
> > Swinging in a hammock, underneath the trees
> > Just you and I together, swaying in the breeze
> > We'll be listening to a bluebird, singing up above
> >
> > Mom's not sure whether they're from a poem or song.  To me, they sound
> > like the first three lines of a verse, with the missing fourth line
> > maybe containing a title phrase (and probably ending in "love").  I've
> > tried LitFinder, Mudcat, various lyrics databases and Google searches.
> >  Does anybody recognize this?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Elaine McHale
> > Librarian
> > Fairfax County (VA) Public Library
> > fxlibrarian at gmail.com
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