Lyr Req: Rocking the baby to sleep

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?