Jim,
First of all apologies. I mentioned 2 songs in the previous posting which are in fact very separate songs. 'Rocking the Cradle' Roud 357 is not the same song as 'Rocking the Baby to Sleep' Roud 4378.

Secondly I'm trying to source Healy's 7 stanza version of 'Rocking the Cradle' he published in Mercier Book of Old Irish Street Ballads Vol 4 p120. I'm wondering if he got it from Smith's Irish Minstrel. Do you have access to Smith? If so how many stanzas are there? The English broadside has the same number of stanzas but some of them are different.

I'm trying to put an article together on the evolution of the theme, which will be added to the Dungheap articles on Mustrad.