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      • “Rock-a-bye Baby (also known as Hush a Bye Baby) is an 18th century English nursery rhyme and lullaby. This very popular rhyme probably originates from the days when women working in the hop fields, would tie their babies cradles to the branches of trees to allow the wind to rock them to sleep.
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  2. In 1874 the sculptor Jules Dalou exhibited a terracotta statuette titled "Hush-a-bye Baby" at that year's Royal Academy exhibition. 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.

  3. Jan 19, 2024 · Origins. Many believe that the first appearance of the rhyme and lullaby occurred in 1765 in Mother Goose’s Melody, which was then reprinted in Boston in 1785. While no copies of the first...

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  4. Jun 13, 2024 · The "Hush-a-bye, baby" rhyme is believed to have first appeared in print in the book "Mother Goose's Melody" in 1765: The best-known lullaby both in England and America, it is regularly crooned...

  5. In 1874 the sculptor Jules Dalou exhibited a terracotta statuette titled "Hush-a-bye Baby" at that year's Royal Academy exhibition. 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.

  6. Aug 15, 2020 · Well, the first written version actually uses ‘Hush-a-by baby on the tree top’, from Mother Gooses Melody in 1796. In 1805, Songs for Nursery had a rhyme that went like this: Rock-a-bye, baby,...

  7. “Rock-a-bye Baby (also known as Hush a Bye Baby) is an 18th century English nursery rhyme and lullaby. This very popular rhyme probably originates from the days when women working in the hop fields, would tie their babies cradles to the branches of trees to allow the wind to rock them to sleep.

  8. Jul 17, 2007 · Hush a bye, baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle, and all. [39] is accompanied by the warning, "This may serve as a Warning to the Proud and Ambitious, who climb so high that they may generally fall at last."

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