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Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms

Traditional

Style
Bluegrass
Tradition
Bluegrass song
Form
Song
Keys
G, A, and B
Level
1
Played on
Voice

In the public domain. Source

Music

90bpm

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History

Buster Carter and Preston Young made the first recording, "I'll Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms," in New York on June 26, 1931, with Posey Rorer on fiddle. The words seem to come out of the cowboy song "My Lula Gal" and the bawdy "Bang Away Lulu" family. The Monroe Brothers recorded it for Bluebird in 1936, and Flatt and Scruggs released their single in December 1951. Buck Owens took it to number 2 on the Billboard country chart in 1971.