![]() Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed.). ![]() ![]() Words for Life (National Literacy Trust). Rockabye (song) – 2016 single by Clean Bandit.Lewis and Joe Young from the 1918 musical "Sinbad" Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody – original show tune composed by Jean Schwartz, lyrics by Sam M.A commission followed in 1875 to carve the composition in marble. This portrayed a singing mother cradling her baby and seated in a rocking chair, with the rhyme’s first two lines quoted on the base. In 1874 the sculptor Jules Dalou exhibited a terracotta statuette titled "Hush-a-bye Baby" at that year's Royal Academy exhibition. Canning Carlton, and Charles Dupee Blake. Newspapers of the period credited its composition to two separate persons, both resident in Boston: Effie Canning (later referred to as Mrs. In 1887 The Times carried an advertisement for a performance in London by a minstrel group featuring a "new" American song called 'Rock-a-bye': " Moore and Burgess Minstrels, St James's-hall TODAY at 3, TONIGHT at 8, when the following new and charming songs will be sung.The great American song of ROCK-A-BYE." An article in The New York Times of August 1891 referred to the tune being played in a parade in Asbury Park, N.J. ![]() The only one mentioned by the Opies in The Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes (1951) is a variant of Henry Purcell's 1686 quickstep Lillibullero, but a second is popular in the USA. The rhyme is generally sung to one of two tunes. "Hush-a-bye baby" in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, ca. In Derbyshire, England, one local legend has it that the song relates to a local character in the late 18th century, Betty Kenny (Kate Kenyon), who lived in a huge yew tree in Shining Cliff Woods in the Derwent Valley, where a hollowed-out bough served as a cradle. that it lampoons the British royal line in the time of James II.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 the first line is a corruption of the French "He bas! là le loup!" (Hush! There's the wolf!).that the baby represents the Egyptian deity Horus.They list a variety of claims that have been made, without endorsing any of them: 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". Modern versions often alter the opening words to "Rock-a-bye, baby," a phrase that was first recorded in Benjamin Tabart's Songs for the Nursery (London, 1805). James Orchard Halliwell, in his The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842), notes that the third line read "When the wind ceases the cradle will fall" in the earlier Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784) and himself records "When the bough bends" in the second line and "Down will come baby, bough, cradle and all" as the fourth. The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last." When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, When the wind blows the cradle will rock
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