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Hush-a-by baby On the tree top, When the wind blows The cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, The cradle will fall, And down will fall baby Cradle and all “The Real Mother Goose” version from 1916: Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green; Father’s a nobleman, mother’s a queen; And Betty’s a lady, and wears a gold ring. Now, nursery rhymes often have surprisingly violent lyrics, but if 'Rock-a-bye Baby' is to be believed, not only is somebody climbing up trees and sticking their babies on the highest branches, but they're also watching as the cradle drops, and then writing songs about it. It's utterly bizarre, and while 'Rock-a-bye Baby' will probably. Rock-A-Bye Baby DESCRIPTION: The nursery rhyme: 'Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.' Folk versions often add more. Rock a-bye, baby. An animated version of the popular children's nursery rhyme 'Rock a-bye, baby' with lyrics.
Nursery Rhyme / Lullaby Rock-a-Bye Baby with Lyrics and Music
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Rock-a-bye Baby has been a popular nursery rhyme for about 245 years(!) So your great-great-great-grandparents may have used this rhyme!
Rock-a-Bye Baby is widely used as a lullaby. So why not try to sing this lullaby tonight? But try to not fall asleep yourself, while singing it for your kids... :)
Don't you remember the Rock-a-Bye Baby tune? Don't worry! You can listen to 'Rock-a-Bye Baby' at the bottom of this page...
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall
And down will come baby, cradle and all
The original lyrics
The original Rock-a-Bye lyrics from back in 1765 goes like this...
Hush-a-by baby, on the tree top
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall
And down will fall baby, cradle and all
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Rock A Bye Baby Song
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Rockabye Baby Nursery Rhyme Lyrics
Here's the version from A Book for Bairns and Big Folk, Children's Rhymes, Games, Songs, and Stories (1904), by Robert Ford:
Hush-a-by Baby on the Tree Top
Hush-a-by baby on the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come cradle and baby and all.
Ford wrote, 'This is a rhyme which 'every child has joyed to hear.' Its origin, as told in the records of the Boston (U.S.) Historical Society, is not more curious than beautiful and significant. 'Shortly after our forefathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (I am quoting), a party were out in the fields where the Indian women were picking strawberries. Several of the women, or squaws as they were called, had papooses - that is babies - and, having no cradle, they had them tied up in Indian fashion and hung from the limbs of the surrounding trees. Sure enough, when the wind blew these cradles would rock! A young man of the party observing this, pulled off a piece of bark and wrote off the above words, which is believed to be the first poetry written in America.'
Another Theory about the Origins of this Song:
(from Wikimedia)
Betty Kenny (Kate Kenyon) and her charcoal burner husband Luke lived in the Shining Cliff Woods in the late 1700's in a huge yew tree that is said to be 2000 years old. Their house was formed within the tree, probably with a turf roof. They raised 8 children, and are said to have used a hollowed-out bough of the tree as a cradle. Local legend suggests that this is the origin of the nursery rhyme 'Rock-a-bye-Baby'.