Mother’s Only Sleeping – Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys

Appears On

• The Essential Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys: 1945–1949(1992)
• The Great Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys(1961)
• Mansions for Me / Mother's Only Sleeping(1947)
• Blue Moon of Kentucky 1936-1949(2002)
• All the Classic Releases 1937-1949(2003)
• Mansions for Me(2001)
• Columbia Historic Edition(1984)
• The Father of Bluegrass: The Early Years 1940–1947(1999)
• The Legend Lives On(2005)

Writers & Composers

• [traditional](lyricist)
• Bill Monroe(writer)

Composition

Recording of Mother's Only Sleeping

Other Versions (5)

• Mother’s Only Sleepingby The Stanley Brothers
• Mother's Only Sleepingby Reno and Smiley
• Mother's Not Deadby The Stanley Brothers
• Mother's Only Sleepingby The Stanley Brothers
• Mother's Only Sleepingby Bill Monroe