Notes

Here's the version from A Book for Bairns and Big Folk, Children's Rhymes, Games, Songs, and Stories (1904), by Robert Ford:
Hush-a-by Baby on the Tree Top
Hush-a-by baby on the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come cradle and baby and all.
Ford wrote, 'This is a rhyme which 'every child has joyed to hear.' Its origin, as told in the records of the Boston (U.S.) Historical Society, is not more curious than beautiful and significant. 'Shortly after our forefathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (I am quoting), a party were out in the fields where the Indian women were picking strawberries. Several of the women, or squaws as they were called, had papooses - that is babies - and, having no cradle, they had them tied up in Indian fashion and hung from the limbs of the surrounding trees. Sure enough, when the wind blew these cradles would rock! A young man of the party observing this, pulled off a piece of bark and wrote off the above words, which is believed to be the first poetry written in America.'
Another Theory about the Origins of this Song:
(from Wikimedia)
Betty Kenny (Kate Kenyon) and her charcoal burner husband Luke lived in the Shining Cliff Woods in the late 1700's in a huge yew tree that is said to be 2000 years old. Their house was formed within the tree, probably with a turf roof. They raised 8 children, and are said to have used a hollowed-out bough of the tree as a cradle. Local legend suggests that this is the origin of the nursery rhyme 'Rock-a-bye-Baby'.

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Just like with many other nursery songs, Rock a bye baby lyrics can be changed any time. This creates a more personalized song for little ones. Lullabies such as Rock-A-Bye Baby have earned the adoration of generations. Rock A Bye Baby Lyrics Resources: 1 Poetry Foundation; Mother Goose. 2 English Folk Dance And Song Society.
Anne-Marie (Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson) Rockabye lyrics: She works the nights, by the water / She's gone astray, so far away / Fr.

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Rock A Bye Baby with Positive Lyrics. The traditional Rock A Bye Baby lyrics include boughs breaking and cradles falling. These were not the comforting messages we wanted to convey to our baby. Although we loved hearing his Grammie sing the original song to our son, we wrote new lyrics when it was our turn to sing. The Full Lyrics to Rockabye Baby. Rock-a-bye, baby, in the tree top When the wind blows the cradle will rock When the bough breaks the cradle will fall Down will.