Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby lyrics

Appalachian music has a tradition, among many others, of the "murder ballad. " they are exactly that - stories about murders. This song was created for the movie soundtrack for 'o brother, where art thou? ' using a great deal of bluegrass, old-time country, and appalachian styles of music.
This song is a murder ballad.

I say that the mother has left the baby and the father tries takeing care of it. Then everyone has left to go work in the feilds (thus takes place during slavery times). Later the singer is telling the baby that there is no happiness gonna stop me from hurting the baby cause the singer wants to take care of the baby (thus giving the baby poison). Then the singer is telling the baby that it's mother has gone away to find another lover ( so is having red shoes). Also is saying that the baby and the singer and the devil are gonna be together cause the baby is going to underworld to live for all entertinty. So the singer told the baby to put it's body to rest and come with the singer to hell to be it's everlovin' baby.

Clearly a song about homosexual pez dispenser named sven that only gives out grape flavored pez.

This song is about an infant who is abandoned by both its mother and father. The first verse is incorrect and should read "daddy's gone to stay. "

It goes on to say that the singer and the child are alone because everyone has gone out to the fields to work.

Honey in the rock is a biblical metaphor for the he peace and happiness that comes from the truth of faith (google it). The verse means that even faith and the sweetness of a child cant stop the singer from giving the bottle (presumably poison) to the baby.

The next verse with the "red shoes" does paint the mom in a sexual nature but not necessarily as a hooker. Either way she is gone to find another lover.

The verse about the devil reinforces the idea that they are alone and that something evil (poisoning) is about to happen

The final verse is a reference to laying the child down in a grave. Alabaster being a soft often white stone that was easy to carve and commonly used for mortuary sculptures and tombstones.

In all the song is about an infant who has been abandoned by its parents and has no one to care for it. The speaker has decided that the infant is better off absent the mortal coil. So while everyone is gone out to work in the fields the speaker is giving the child poison in a bottle and laying it down for an eternal rest.

Okay i think it may be about the mother of the baby getting sold for slavery and the father being left behind (preobably disabled? ) "everybody's gone to the cotton and the corn" corn and cotton are commonly in plantations in the south for slavery. She's long and gone with her red shoes on" is probably the shackles around her ankles thus refering to the red shoes and finally "come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones and be my everloving baby" is the baby dieing and the mother grieving and holding the baby in the last moments of life. Does the mother find the bebe? I dunno bt this is just my opinion! Xd

I'm not sure, but i heard it's a song about a baby born from prostitution.