This song is pretty spooky by itself too.
Rock a bye baby meaning scary.
Now nursery rhymes often have surprisingly violent lyrics but if rock a bye baby is to be believed not only is somebody climbing up trees and sticking their babies on the highest branches but they re also watching as the cradle drops and then writing songs about it.
Rock a bye baby 1765 one interpretation of this famous lullaby is that it is about the son of king james ii of england and mary of modena.
And down will come baby cradle and all.
An eagle then carried the baby off and tore it to pieces.
It is widely believed that the boy was not their son at.
The title rock a bye baby was used for a 1958 comedy starring jerry lewis as a tv repairman who agrees to care for his movie star sweetheart s triplets.
Turns out scaring children to sleep is a global phenomenon.
Rock a bye baby can also be interpreted as the moment of conception to birth.
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall.
Rock a bye baby in the treetop when the wind blows the cradle will rock when the bough breaks the cradle will fall and down will come baby cradle and all.
The song is from the perspective of the grief stricken mother.
When the wind blows the cradle will rock.
Rock a bye baby also known as hush a bye baby is an.
Rock a bye baby in the treetop.
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It s utterly bizarre and while rock a bye baby will probably permanently remain embedded in pop culture after all it.
Many mothers probably wonder why they are singing their child to sleep with a song about a baby who dies in a tragic accident.
This turkish lullaby is related to a story about a man who promised to sacrifice three camels if his wife could have a child but then decided to renege and keep the three camels after she gave birth.
There are competing theories about the origins of this ditty.