Well guys, not to wax pedantic, but the version of "Rocking the Cradle" I learned long ago was clearly Irish by the language in it. Granted it could have been the British equivalent of a "Tin Pan Alley" or "darky" song -- an imitation of a subordinated culture -- but that's a discrimination I will have to leave to the real scholars; I am but an amateur in the face of the Mysterium Magnum....The fact that it was abroadside in England neither supports or invalidates either statement about its provenance.

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