Rock A Bye, Baby
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4 min readAug 15, 2020
The stories behind the nursery rhyme
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…