This lullaby is from the 1941 Disney animated feature Dumbo. Actress and singer Betty Noyes recorded the vocals for a scene in which baby elephant Dumbo visits his mother, who is locked up in a circus wagon. The mom cradles him with her trunk as she offers words of comfort, telling him she will always have his back.
The instrumentation is by Frank Churchill, who also wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The lyrics were penned by Ned Washington, who won the Best Original Music award in 1940 for Pinnochio's "When You Wish Upon A Star."
Churchill won an Academy Award in 1942, together with Oliver Wallace, for the score of Dumbo. Tragically, he killed himself with a gunshot within weeks of his Oscar win.
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