Rock-a-bye Baby

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Versions of
Rock-a-bye Baby (1772)

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Also Hush-a-bye Baby: popular English-language nursery rhyme and lullaby. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 2768. The first printed version was in Mother Goose's Melody (London, c. 1765). The melody may be a variant of the English satirical ballad "Lillibullero", and is sometimes credited to Effie Crockett or Charles Dupee Blake.

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Versions of Rock-a-bye Baby include:

"On the tree-top"

"Baby on the Tree Top" in Tommy Thumb's Song Book by Nurse Lovechild (1815 edition).
"H" in The Alphabet of Old Friends (1874)
"Rock-a-bye, baby, on the tree top" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).
"Hush-a-by Baby" in The Baby's Opera (1900)
"Hush-a-bye, baby" in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901).
"Hush-a-Bye" in The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)
"Rock-a-Bye, Baby" in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918).

"Thy cradle is green"

"Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).