Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe

Subject: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 12:16 PM

Here are the words I know for this fiddle tune in D. Does anyone know any more?

VERSE:

Gotta get up, gotta go to work

Gotta get up in the morning

Watcha gonna do when the baby cries

Rock that cradle Joe

CHORUS:

Watcha gonna do when the baby cries

Lord I don't know

Watcha gonna do when the baby cries

Rock that cradle Joe

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 02:10 PM

The opne you gave is the only one I know for the verse-- I use these choruses:

Rock the cradle Lucy, rock the cradle high
Rock the cradle Lucy, don't let the baby cry
Rock the cradle Luck, rock the cradle low
Rock the cradle, Lucy, and rock the cradle Joe

and there is the wonderful one I learned from Martha Burns, who denied making it up
I'll go down to MacDonalds, I'll stand there in the line
I'll buy a billion hamburgers and make them change the sign

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 02:32 PM

Thanks, Pete, but I think that's a different tune.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: Barry Finn
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 07:09 PM

Rock the cradle Lucy, rock the cradle long
Rock the cradle Lucy & keep the baby warm.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 12:26 PM

Again, that't not the tune I am requesting lyrics for. Here is a midi of the tune I am interested in. http://www.homestead.com/hetzler/files/Rock_the_Cradle_Joe.mid

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 05:27 PM

don't know how to do midis. The tune I know (and have played for about 30 years under that name) is the one found near Round Peak and Galaxc and is first cousin to Sally Ann-- as Nancy Sluys once called it" the Surry County national anthem". That help l\place it? I can sing your words to my tune

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 11:42 PM

Pete, try pasting the url gave into your web browser's url window and hit enter. If your computer is capable of playing it, it will do it automatically. I'd format it as a link, except I don't know how. Maybe I'll try anyway. click here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Pete peterson
Date: 13 Jul 01 - 01:07 PM

Al-- it worked--(thanks!) and this IS indeed the tune I know so I don't understand why you don't believe the words I gave fit the tune. The tune is sung using only the "main notes" and not all the arpeggios-- just like Soldiers Joy-- try that?? (If all else fails write [e-mail], I'll give you my phone # and I'll sing it to you. Where do you live?)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes
Date: 16 Jul 01 - 01:19 AM

Pete, I tried sending you an email. Did you get it?