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Question Posted Wednesday September 5 2007, 12:08 pm

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?


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dorischan answered Thursday July 10 2014, 4:53 pm:
Don't be silly! Babies don't understand! When babies hear this soothing music, they drift in their sweet dreams...

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isis answered Thursday September 6 2007, 5:42 pm:
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Scroll down to the relevent rhyme and it tells you the derivation. It is quite a macabre lulla
by but there is a reason.

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