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Rock A Bye Baby Lyrics Clean Bandit

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'.

Rock-a-Bye Baby Nursery Rhyme / Lullaby Rock-a-Bye Baby with Lyrics and Music. Rock-a-bye Baby has been a popular nursery rhyme for about 245 years(!) So your.

Rock A Bye Baby Song

Rock-A-Bye Baby is a 1958 American musical comedy film starring Jerry Lewis. A loose remake of Preston Sturges ' film The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944), the film. Buddy Holly - Rock-a-bye rock lyrics. Rock-a-baby, rock-rock-rock I just love the way you dance Rock-a-baby, rock-rock-rock Come on tell me. Lyrics to 'Rock-A-Bye Baby' by Lullabies and Children's Songs. Rock a bye baby on the treetop When the wind blows the cradle will rock When the bough breaks the cradle will fall And don will come baby cradle and all. 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.