Rock-a-Bye Baby
Treetop lullaby tune
Rock-a-Bye Baby is a traditional English lullaby, among the most widely known nursery rhymes in the English-speaking world.
The lyrics describe a baby in a cradle placed in a treetop, which falls when the bough breaks.
Despite the unsettling imagery, the song is sung to soothe infants to sleep: She hummed Rock-a-Bye Baby while rocking the cradle.
The title sometimes appears as Rockabye Baby or Rock-a-Bye, Baby.
- lullabySoothing song for babies
- nursery rhymeTraditional poem for young children
- cradleRocking bed for infants
- little oneYoung child, fondly
- sleepRecurring unconscious repose
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- nursery rhymeslullabies, Little Jack Horner, cradle songs, Old Mother Hubbard, nursery rhymes
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