Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe

11 Jul 01 - 12:16 PM (#504098)
Subject: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes

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

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11 Jul 01 - 02:10 PM (#504212)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson

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

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11 Jul 01 - 02:32 PM (#504244)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes

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

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11 Jul 01 - 07:09 PM (#504514)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: Barry Finn

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

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12 Jul 01 - 12:26 PM (#505059)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes

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

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12 Jul 01 - 05:27 PM (#505285)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson

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

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12 Jul 01 - 11:42 PM (#505510)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes

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

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13 Jul 01 - 01:07 PM (#505822)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Pete peterson

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?)

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16 Jul 01 - 01:19 AM (#507435)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock the Cradle Joe
From: GUEST,Al Lubanes

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

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