Rock-a-bye Baby

[kiamoy]

Do you really want to sing this song to your baby?

"Rock a bye baby - in 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!"

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It's a lesson to keep children away from Rock and Roll

[kiamoy]

it's like imagining a baby's death

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And why would you put the cradle on top of the tree with the baby in it in the first place?

[kiamoy]

mao gane.. pero lahi jud ni dagan sa ako utok run..(hihi) kung binastos pa, sobra rako ka green..lol!

[Lorenzo]

lol

I am sure there is a historical analysis of this bedtime poem.

Shall one quaint us with the meaning?

Pray, I ask, divulge~

[kiamoy]

mao na na lorz, naay bad nga huna huna ang nag compose..haha.

hmm,let me do try wiki..ugh

[Lorenzo]

and has your Wiki search found fruit?

[kiamoy]

uh-oh.. i didn't do my assignment yet.. teka.. bebackinafew:)

[Lorenzo]

hahahaha. kita ka ana !

dali kiam, dali na ! hahaha

[kiamoy]

 It is rumoured that it was written by a young pilgrim who sailed to America on the Mayflower. He was said to have observed the way native-American women rocked their babies in birch-bark cradles, which were suspended from the branches of trees, allowing the wind to rock the baby to sleep. However, the branches holding the cradles sometimes had a habit of breaking, causing the cradle to fall and the baby in it to get hurt.  (<-this one is convincing. )

The nursery rhyme suggests a falling, apparently related to a terrible accident in 1706 where the Earl of Sandwich's son was tossed without warning from his cradle. The cradle was later found in the Thames River empty and alone.

Another source reports that Effie Crockett, a relative of Davy Crockett, wrote the lyrics in 1872 while babysitting a restless child

-wiki

[Lorenzo]

Ah, I never knew that.

Thank you, Ms. K, for that riveting explanation.