Rock A Bye, Baby

Emily Morgan
Linguist
Published in
4 min readAug 15, 2020

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The stories behind the nursery rhyme

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Rock A Bye, Baby

Today’s rhyme, one that most of us in the English speaking world know well, goes like this:

Rock a bye baby, on the tree top

When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.

When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,

And down will come baby…

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Emily Morgan
Linguist

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