Dick gives parody variants on Rockabye Baby above: but nobody seems to have posted the pretty dark original which terrified me 75 years ago when my 7-y-older sister would sing it to me ~~

Rockabye (or Hushabye) baby in the tree top
When the wind blows the cradle will rock
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall
Down will come baby cradle and all

Are there, in fact, any lullabies that are NOT dark {apart perhaps from Brahms, which is obviously not traditional}? And WHY do they all seem to be so? Seems an odd tradition to me, that babies should be lulled to sleep by being terrified?

And related thematically, & to which same ?s apply, may perhaps be adduced the well-known traditional children's prayer

Matthew Mark Luke and John
Bless the bed that I lie on
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take

Very cheering to a child last thing at night, to be sure...

~Michael~