Rock a Bye Baby
Rock a Bye Baby
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.
Award Winning Children's Music Lesson Series
Characters from famous nursery rhymes are recast as hip musicians that introduce your child to the world of musical instruments. Imagine the Itsy Bitsy Spider as a groovy piano player or the Three Blind Mice as a rock trio and you'll begin to get the idea. Groove Kid Nation provides a fresh new approach to introducing children to music.
Origin
“Hush-a-by Baby,” as the rhyme was originally known, was first published in London in 1765 (in Mother Goose’s Melody), and reprinted in Boston in 1785. The tune comes from a version of “Lillibullero” (1689), an English satirical ballad attributed to Henry Purcell. One popular (unproven) theory about the rhyme’s origins suggests it was written by a pilgrim who had observed Native-American baby cradles hanging from the branches of trees, swaying children to sleep.
