# Another song ID question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-question/188767>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 16, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-question/188767 "2003-07-16T00:23:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-question/188767/1 "2003-07-16T00:23:34Z")

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Yes I did try google, so did my husband, to no avail… sorry if there’s some other obvious avenue I also should have tried first.

I heard it on an alternative station. There was an intro first, where a woman said “This is a song about the morning dew, and why it never falls for us.”

Then she began singing the song. A woman was talking to her mother, and saying a baby was crying, and the mother replied “You’ll never hear that baby cry again.”

At that point I had to turn the song off because it was upsetting a young child in the car. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-question/188767/2 "2003-07-16T00:30:44Z")

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“Morning Dew” by Bonnie Dobson (with a cover by the Grateful Dead)?

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> But I thought I heard my baby crying mama  
> Oh yes I hear my baby crying mama  
> You’ll never hear your baby cry again  
> You’ll never hear your baby cry again
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> Oh where have all the people gone?  
> Won’t you tell me, where have all the people gone?  
> Don’t you worry 'bout the people any more  
> Don’t you worry 'bout the people any more

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**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-question/188767/3 "2003-07-16T00:32:33Z")

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[Here](http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/introjs.htm?/~acsa/songfile/MORNDEW.HTM) are the lyrics…

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**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-question/188767/4 "2003-07-16T04:54:00Z")

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That’s it all right! Wow, that was fast. Thank you so much! This had been driving me crazy for months.

Now to find a copy of it, the rest of the lyrics are as cool as I thought they might be.

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**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-question/188767/5 "2003-07-16T07:23:06Z")

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It’s not that we won’t keep on helping each other, but it’s good to point that performing a search in Yahoo! or Google, typing a phrase of the lyrics that you recall, followed by the word “lyrics”, it’ll give you (almost always) some links for the song you want.

I’ve been frequently amazed of what those databases can do!