
Lyrics
(American folk song)
It’s what did you have for your supper,
Jimmy Randall, my son?
Oh what did you have for your supper
my own little one?
Sweet milk and sweet parsnips,
Mother, make my bed soon.
For I’m tired at the heart
And I want to lie down.
(Also called Jimmy Randall)
See also
- Harmony: I IV V chords
- Meter: 3
- Rhythm:
/ ties
- Scale: hexachord
- Tones: drmfsl
- Source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody


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