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Origin. The scholars Iona and Peter Opie note that the age of the words is uncertain, and that "imaginations have been stretched to give the rhyme significance". They list a variety of claims that have been made, without endorsing any of them: [2] that the baby represents the Egyptian deity Horus.
Rock a bye 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 baby, cradle and all.
In early June 2024, a post went viral on Facebook, allegedly explaining the origin of what it called America's favorite nursery rhyme, "Rock-a-bye Baby."
The publisher Charles D. Blake published “Rock-a-Bye Baby” in 1886, only after he arranged for playwright Denman Thompson to use the song in the kitchen scene of his new play, The Old Homestead. The sheet music sales reached about $20,000 within a few months.
A second American origin story provides that one of Davy Crockett’s relatives, Effie, wrote the modern lyrics we know today in 1872 while babysitting. Although she was not included on the credits, the IMDB lists her as the writer of “Rock-a-Bye Baby” when it was used in well-over 100 movies.
The popular lullaby was first printed in 1765 in Mother Goose 's Melody. Some historians believe it was written in response to King James II's conversion to Catholicism. He had a son in 1688 and many feared his heir would lead to a Catholic dynasty in England.
Well, the first written version actually uses ‘Hush-a-by baby on the tree top’, from Mother Goose’s Melody in 1796. In 1805, Songs for Nursery had a rhyme that went like this: Rock-a-bye, baby,...
Scholars believe it was first published in the mid-1700s in Mother Goose’s Melody in London. Over the last 250 years, the lullaby has been only slightly modified, and is generally known today as follows: “ Rock-a-bye, baby, in the tree top. When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
Rock-a-bye Baby (1765) No doubt one of the most popular lullabies of all time, theories about its meaning include political allegory, a swinging (“dandling”) rhyme, and reference to a 17th-century English ritual in which stillborn babies were placed in baskets hung on a tree branch to see if they would come back to life.
(Hush! There's the wolf!) that it was written by an English Mayflower colonist who observed the way Native American women rocked their babies in birch-bark cradles, suspended from the branches of trees. that it lampoons the British royal line in the time of James II.