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"Rock the Cradle Joe
Rock the cradle Lucy(Light-Mesbah), rock the cradle low,

Rock the cradle Lucy, Rock the Cradle Joe.

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Rock the cradle Lucy, rock the cradle high,

Rock the cradle Lucy, don't let that baby cry. (Kuntz)

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('A') Can't get up, can't get up,

Can't get up in the morning;

What we gonna do if the baby cries?

Rock the cradle Joe.

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('B') Rock the cradle, rock the cradle,

Rock the cradle Joe;

Rock the cradle, rock the cradle,

Rock it nice and slow.?????????????? (Johnson)

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What?ll we do when the baby cries

I don?t know;

What?ll we do when the baby cries

Rock that cradle Joe.

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Variations of the words, however, were in tradition as ?Uncle Joe Cut
Off His Toe,? a nursery rhyme which has variants with verses which also
resemble some of the ?Old Joe Clark? verses:

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Uncle Joe cut off his toe

And hung it up to dry;

The ladies began to laugh

And Joe began to cry.

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Chorus:

Rock the cradle, rock the cradle,

Rock the cradle, Joe.

'I will not rock, I shall not rock,

For the baby is not mine.'??? (Collection Of North Carolina Folklore,
Volume 3)

the North Carolina version:
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O, rock the cradle, John,

O, rock the cradle, John,

There's many a man

Rocks another man's child

When he thinks he's rocking his own."