| James Robinson Planché - 1879 - 388 Seiten
...don't know one air from t'other ! National Ballad — UNA — To its own air. Hush a bye baby upon the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock ; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down tumbles baby and cradle and all. Hark, how he snores ! asleep already... | |
| Albert Phelps Graves - 1879 - 152 Seiten
...housekeepers, and mothers, think they have no time for music, unless it be to sing to the baby, " Rock a-by baby on the tree top, • When the wind blows the cradle will rock." She should make time for music. Nothing can please a husband, and bless a home more. You will find... | |
| 1899 - 708 Seiten
...sheep-keeping time. Here is another, the savage origin of which is transparent: — " Rock-a-bye baby upon the tree top; When the wind blows the cradle will...bough bends the cradle will fall, Down will come baby and cradle and all." The scene referred to is explained by Bancroft when he describes the American... | |
| Charles Heber Clark - 1881 - 464 Seiten
...trying to soothe them. Mr. Pidgeon. — (outside} There ! there ! (singing) " Hush-a-bye-baby, upon the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock ; when the bow breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come cradle and baby and all." There, now, don't cry.... | |
| Wilhelmina Lydia Rooper - 1884 - 80 Seiten
...lorraal acknowledgment. RECITATIONS FOU INFANTS' SCHOOLS. PART I. NURSERY RHYMES. 1 Hush-a-by-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby and cradle and all. 2 Bye baby bunting, Daddy's gone... | |
| 1906 - 858 Seiten
...relation between bird and tree and baby and tree became manifest, ami so the cradle song: "Hushaby, baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows The cradle will rock," sang themselves from mother hearts to mother lips into a lullaby that will outlive all the modern vagaries... | |
| Henry Christopher McCook - 1884 - 490 Seiten
...storm. Our mother-spider, indeed, might sing over her cradle the famous nursery rhyme : " ' Rock-a-by, baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock.' " However, there would be little likelihood in her case of such a melancholy conclusion as the lullaby... | |
| 1885 - 198 Seiten
...come ba-by, era -die and all. V)T& W '^B — Pi EE±3z=S2=5r ^r*-fc m P v ir " Rock-a-bye, baby, in the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock ; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall. And down will come baby, cradle and all." Rock-a-bye, baby, the meadows... | |
| United States National Museum - 1889 - 884 Seiten
...to be hung upon the limbs to rock, auswering literally to the nursery rhyme : Rock a-bye baby upon the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will...bough bends the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, and cradle, and all. (5) It is also a play-house and baby-jumper. On many, uearly all, specimens may... | |
| Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1892 - 626 Seiten
...leaves, for the other leaves only look after themselves. Shall we sing to this baby ? ' ' Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top, When the wind blows, the cradle...rock, When the bough bends the cradle will fall, Down comes baby, cradle and all." Now this is what happened to the little acorn shell, but it fell in some... | |
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