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Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep DigiTrad: ROCKIN` THE CRADLE ROCKING THE CRADLE SPORTING BACHELORS WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN Related threads: Chord Req: Town of Kiandra (28) Rocking the Cradle (39) Lyr Req: Old Man's Lament (B Sainte-Marie?) (7) Lyr Req: Cuckolded lullaby (14) Rockin The Cradle vs The Wee One (11) |
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Subject: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: GUEST,Padraig Date: 22 Feb 07 - 12:00 PM Seeking a song that I've heard several times over the years but numerous searches have proved futile. I remember one line in particular: 'Many a man rocks another man child when he's rocking the baby to sleep'. Because there is a bit of yodeling I suspect that Jimmy Rodgers is behind it. Anybody got any ideas? Your time is much appreciated. Regards Padraig Ireland |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: Peace Date: 22 Feb 07 - 12:27 PM Found the following, but nowt else. It is from here. (Takes a while to open.) If that doesn't work, try a google of Official Empire Thread - Open Under Pain Of Death "Rock the Cradle Joe Rock the cradle Lucy(Light-Mesbah), rock the cradle low, Rock the cradle Lucy, Rock the Cradle Joe. *** Rock the cradle Lucy, rock the cradle high, Rock the cradle Lucy, don't let that baby cry. (Kuntz) *** ('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. *** ('B') Rock the cradle, rock the cradle, Rock the cradle Joe; Rock the cradle, rock the cradle, Rock it nice and slow.?????????????? (Johnson) *** What?ll we do when the baby cries I don?t know; What?ll we do when the baby cries Rock that cradle Joe. *** 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: *** Uncle Joe cut off his toe And hung it up to dry; The ladies began to laugh And Joe began to cry. *** 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: *** 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." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: Goose Gander Date: 22 Feb 07 - 12:29 PM The song is usually known as Rock All Our Babies to Sleep . . . Lyrics and brief discussion in this thread. Lots of people have done it, I'll up some more stuff later today. In the meantime, here's the Ballad Index entry . . . Rocking the Cradle (and the Child Not His Own) DESCRIPTION: The old man laments "about rocking the cradle and the child not his own." Though at the time he had been happy to marry a lighthearted lass, he now finds her out at parties all the time (or keeping company with other men) AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1924 (recording, Riley Puckett) KEYWORDS: marriage age wife husband children infidelity bastard FOUND IN: Ireland US(SE,So) Britain(Wales) Canada(Newf) Australia REFERENCES (7 citations): Randolph 393, "Rock All Our Babies to Sleep" (1 text, 1 tune) Warner 166, "Show Me the Man Who Never Done Wrong (or, Rocking the Baby to Sleep)" (1 text, 1 tune -- a curious version in which it appears at first that it is the woman, not the man, who is betrayed) Meredith/Anderson, pp. 168-169, "The Wee One"; p. 266, "Rock All Our Babies" (2 texts, 2 tunes) Kennedy 212, "Rocking the Cradle" (1 text, 1 tune) Peacock, pp. 478-479, "The Milkman's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune) Lomax-FSNA 192, "The Old Man's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune); also 190, "Run Along, You Little Dogies" (1 text, 1 tune, mostly "Get Along Little Dogies" but with a chorus partly from this piece!) DT, ROCKCRAD ROCKCRA2 Roud #357 RECORDINGS: A. L. Lloyd, "Rocking the Cradle" (on Lloyd2, Lloyd4) Uncle Dave Macon, "Tossing the Baby So High" (Vocalion 5013, 1926) Neil Morris, "Rock All the Babies to Sleep" (on LomaxCD1707) Charlie & Bud Newman, "Rock All Our Babies to Sleep" (OKeh 45431, 1930; rec. 1928) Riley Puckett, "Rock All Our Babies to Sleep" (Columbia 107-D, 1924) George Reneau, "Rock All Our Babies to Sleep" (Vocalion 14997, 1925) Jimmie Rodgers, "Rock All Our Babies to Sleep" (Victor 23721, 1932; Regal Zonophone [UK] MR-2200, 1936; rec. 1930) Dave Turner [pseud. for Dick Parman], "Rock All Our Babies To Sleep" (Supertone 9374, 1929) Fay & Jay Walker, "Rock All Our Babies to Sleep" (Broadway 8093, c. 1925) CROSS-REFERENCES: cf. "Unhappy Jeremiah (The Brats of Jeremiah)" (plot) cf. "Hush-a-Bye, Baby" (plot) cf. "When I Was Single (II)" ALTERNATE TITLES: Tossing the Baby So High (Uncle Dave Macon version) Notes: An Irish legend has it that the chorus, "Hi-ho, hi-ho, my laddie, lie easy, For perhaps your own daddy might never be known. I'm seein' and sighin' and rockin' the cradle, And nursing the baby that's none of my own," was sung by the Virgin Mary to the baby Jesus. In English, no doubt. - RBW |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: Goose Gander Date: 22 Feb 07 - 01:06 PM Original recording Rock All Our Babies to Sleep by Riley Puckett. From Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: Goose Gander Date: 22 Feb 07 - 01:10 PM Rock'in My Baby to Sleep as sung by Ollie Gilbert, Mountain View, Arkansas on August 8, 1969 Some men seeks pleasure 'way from their home While others by th fireside keep All th pleasure ever I seek Is rock'in my baby to sleep Hally-o, rock-a-bye-baby Toss'in th baby, ever so high Hally-o, rock-a-bye-baby Mamma come home to you afterwhile One night I got my baby to sleep Took short stroll on th street An' to my surprise, I saw with my eyes My wife with a soldier, six feet Then I went wild, but I passed with a smile I'se only take'n a peek While hugg'n an' kiss'n th men on th street I'm rock'in my baby to sleep Hally-o, rock-a-bye-baby Toss'in th baby, ever so high Hally-o, rock-a-bye-baby Mamma come home to you afterwhile From the Max Hunter collection. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: Leadbelly Date: 22 Feb 07 - 03:26 PM Hi, there is a song recorded by Buddy Knox from Texas called "Rock your little baby to sleep" issued on 5-8-1957 by "Roulette". But I think, that's not what you are looking for. Manfred |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: GUEST,Padraig Date: 25 Feb 07 - 04:41 AM You have all been most helpful and thank you one & all for your input. Padraig |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: Louie Roy Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:19 PM Rock all the babies to sleep was written and recorded by Jimmie Rodgers August 11 1932 and I can post the correct lyrics if you want them.Louie Roy |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: mg Date: 25 Feb 07 - 10:21 PM It sounds like I am a young man from the town of Kiandra..I married a woman____..with a weeping and wailing and rocking the cradle and rocking the baby that's none of my own. When I'm at work my wife's on the rantan. On the rantan with some other man.. ..for the by the Lord Harry if one you should marry she'll leave you with a baby that's none of your own. Oh how I rue the day ever I married. How I wish I was single again. With a weeping and wailing and rocking the cradle and rocking a baby that's none of ;my own. Now, what is interesting, is this song morphed into Whoopie tie yi yo get along little doggies..it's your misfortune and none of ;my own... whoopie tie yi hyo ...you know that Wyoming will be your new home. Jon Bartlett knows a song that shows the song that fits in between those two. I heard this version was Welsh originally. mg |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: Jim Dixon Date: 28 Feb 07 - 11:10 PM Copied from here, where it's called a poem: Here's to the man That rocketh his child And rocketh and rocketh his own. But many a man rocketh Another man's child When he thinks he's rocking his own. Here's to the man That kisses his wife And kisses and kisses his own. But many a man kisses Another man's wife When he ought to be kissing his own. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep From: GUEST,Michelle Ligon Date: 07 Mar 07 - 11:15 AM I was told today, that is the "genealogist's toast." Here's to the man who rocks the cradle and the one who rocks his own; For many a man rocks another man's cradle when he thinks he's rocking his own! Cheers? |
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