Anonymous British

Hush a By Baby

Hush-a-by Baby On the tree top, When the wind blows The cradle will rock; When the bough breaks The cradle will fall, Down tumbles baby, Cradle, and all. 1. "The best-known lullaby both in England and America, it is regularly crooned in hundreds of thousands of homes at nightfall. " See The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, ed. Iona and Peter Opie (1951\; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), no. 22, p. 61.