Hush-a-bye Baby Series #210 "Long Dress -fist Hand
| Stone-a-bye Baby / Hush-a-cheerio Infant | |
|---|---|
 Analogy by Kate Greenaway, 1900 | |
| Publication date | c. 1765 |
| Read online | Rock-a-bye Baby / Hush-a-bye Baby at Wikisource |
"Rock-a-bye babe on the tree superlative" (sometimes "Hush-a-good day baby on the tree acme") is a nursery rhyme and lullaby. Information technology has a Roud Folk Vocal Index number of 2768.
Words [edit]
First publication [edit]
The rhyme is believed to have offset appeared in print in Mother Goose's Melody (London c. 1765),[i] possibly published past John Newbery, and which was reprinted in Boston in 1785.[2] No copies of the beginning edition are extant, but a 1791 edition has the post-obit words:[3]
Hush-a-by baby on the tree top,
When the current of air blows the cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
Downward tumbles baby, cradle and all.
The rhyme is followed past a notation: "This may serve equally a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last."[3]
Modern versions [edit]
Modern versions often alter the opening words to "Rock-a-farewell", a phrase that was first recorded in Benjamin Tabart's Songs for the Nursery (London, 1805).[ii] [4]
A 2021 National Literacy Trust example has these words:[5]
Rock a bye baby on the tree top,
When the current of air blows the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.
Origin [edit]
The scholars Iona and Peter Opie notation that the historic period of the words is uncertain, and that "imaginations have been stretched to give the rhyme significance". They list a diversity of claims that have been made, without endorsing any of them:[ane]
- that the babe represents the Egyptian deity Horus
- that the first line is a corruption of the French "He bas! là le loup!" (Hush! In that location'due south the wolf!)
- that it was written by an English Mayflower colonist who observed the mode Native American women rocked their babies in birch-bark cradles, suspended from the branches of copse[two]
- that it lampoons the British royal line in the fourth dimension of James II.
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.[6]
Tunes [edit]
"Hush-a-good day baby" in The Babe'south Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, ca. 1877
The rhyme is mostly sung to one of two tunes. The only 1 mentioned by the Opies in The Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes (1951) is a variant of Henry Purcell's 1686 quickstep Lillibullero,[one] just a second is popular in the USA.
In 1887 The Times carried an advertisement for a performance in London by a minstrel group featuring a "new" American vocal called 'Rock-a-bye': "Moore and Burgess Minstrels, St James's-hall TODAY at three, This evening at 8, when the following new and mannerly songs will be sung...The great American song of Stone-A-BYE..."[7] An article in The New York Times of August 1891 referred to the tune being played in a parade in Asbury Park, Northward.J.[eight] Newspapers of the flow credited its composition to ii separate persons, both resident in Boston: Effie Canning (afterward referred to as Mrs. Effie D. Canning Carlton,[9] [10] and Charles Dupee Blake.[11]
See also [edit]
- Stone-a-Adieu Your Babe with a Dixie Melody
- Stone-a-Bye Lady past Eugene Field
- Rockabye (song) – 2016 single past Clean Brigand
Reference [edit]
- ^ a b c Opie, Iona; Opie, Peter, eds. (1997). The Oxford Dictionary of Plant nursery Rhymes (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. seventy. ISBN978-0-19-860088-6.
- ^ a b c H. Carpenter and Yard. Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Oxford Academy Press, 1984), pp. 326.
- ^ a b Prideaux, WF (1904). Mother Goose's Melody : A facsimile reproduction of the primeval known edition. London: AH Bullen. p. 39. A reproduction of Female parent Goose's Melody : Or, Sonnets for the Cradle, published by Francis Power (grandson to the late Mr J Newbery), London, 65 St Paul'southward Chuchyard, 1791.
- ^ Morag Styles, From the garden to the street: an introduction to 300 years of poetry for children (Cassell, 1998),p. 105.
- ^ "Stone a bye infant". Words for Life (National Literacy Trust) . Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ "Ambergate Walk leaflet" (PDF). Ambervalley.gov.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28.
- ^ The Times, Monday, Sep 19, 1887; pg. one; Issue 32181
- ^ New York Times, August 4, 1891 (p. 1) refers to the tune beingness played at a Baby Parade at Asbury Park, N.J.: "The line of march formed at the Asbury Avenue Pavilion, and, headed past the total band of the Usa steamship Trenton playing "Rock-a-Bye Baby," proceeded upward the promenade and countermarched, returning in files of four."
- ^ New York Times, Lord's day January vii, 1940, Section: Obituaries, Page 51: "MRS. CARLTON DIES; COMPOSED LULLABY; Wrote 'Stone-a-Bye Baby' at Historic period of 15--Succumbs in Boston Hospital at 67 WAS Extra 30 YEARS Played Contrary Gillette in 'Private Secretary' and in Own Repertory Group..."
- ^ "The composer of the popular song, "Rock-a-Goodbye Baby", which beautifully adapts and incorporates the one-time and familiar lullaby, is Miss Effie L. Canning, a young daughter who was built-in and formerly lived in Rockland, Me. She is now a resident of Boston. Her success at either verse or music had not been particularly great until, by a sort of sudden inspiration, she 1 day produced the now celebrated lullaby whose popularity, it is a pleasure to state, in the confront of and then many unlike instances, has been a source of much profit to the composer. Miss Canning is a tall, slender girl, with large brown eyes, full of the sympathy that finds its all-time expression in art." New York Times, Midweek September 10, 1893, Page 11).
- ^ "Charles Dupee Blake, aged fifty-seven, widely known as a composer of pop music...died yesterday at his home in Brookline (Boston)...Mr. Blake equanimous more than 5,000 songs and pieces of music. Probably his all-time known work is Rock-a-Bye Infant." New York Times, Wednesday Nov 25, 1903, p. 9.
Hush-a-bye Baby Series #210 "Long Dress -fist Hand
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