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Question

Why do we sing "Rock a bye baby" to lull our little ones to sleep when the song is about putting your baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle to the ground?

Answer 1

ya i thought about that before... i'm too young to have kids, but still thats weird... i wonder who made that up! child abuse is what it sounds like to me...

Answer 2

I've always wondered about that! Isn't that kind of a frightening image to a child to think that "when the wind blows, the cradle with fall"? I wonder who wrote that lullaby!

Answer 3

You know, I never thought of that! It's freaky if you think about it. I think "down will come baby" symbolizes your baby's falling asleep when you've finished the song, but that's a darned good question.

Answer 4

heh, lullabies are weird aren't they? And ring around the rosie is about dying of a plague.

My aunt used to sing me lullabies about a boy dying of pollio, and a woman getting murdered... it was from a song by courtney love, i think, but she turned it in to a lullaby.

Answer 5

Well ring aroudn the rosey is about the black plague. I do not sing at all at any time. I hand them and I-pod and go to sleep myself.

Answer 6

Kids just needs some kind of music to sleep .

Answer 7

I don't have any children but my sister's always sang 'and mommy will catch you cradle and all' somewhere in there.

Answer 8

I know!! It's just like Ring-Around-The-Rosey! That's about some type of plague and death!

Answer 9

most of the those were made in the dark age of man during the black plag.

Answer 10

Alot of those old nursery rhymes are tragic and mean.