Ever wonder about Baby Songs?
Ive been wondering about that song “Rock a bye baby” and where it came from because they lyrics are so crazy when it says, “on the tree top” or “down will come baby, cradle and all” To me it sounds a little crazy of a song like why would you rock your baby in a tree first of all and second of all why would you want the baby to fall down from the tree and why would the cradle even be in a tree or how would the cradle get up there? Well I did a little research and here is the info I found. Pretty interesting how things come about and how long they have been around.
“Various theories exist to explain the origins of the rhyme.
One identifies it as the first poem written on American soil, suggesting it may date from the 17th century and have been written by an English immigrant who 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.A difficulty with this theory is that the words appeared in print first in England in c. 1765.
