Why do we sing "Rock a bye baby" to lull our little ones to sleep when the song is about putting your baby in

Why do we sing "Rock a bye baby" to lull our little ones to sleep when the song is about putting your baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle to the ground?

Why do we sing "Rock a bye baby" to lull our little ones to sleep when the song is about putting your baby in
lol! I'm w/ ya there! It's a wonder we're not all messed up.....childhood nightmares of mommy leaving us in a tree to come tumbling down!!


It's silly what becomes traditions, huh?
Reply:Why do we continue to teach our kids "Ring-around-the-Rosie" when it's about death... "ashes, ashes, we all fall down!"...lol
Reply:LOL! Just like the song Peas Porridge Hot... in a pot 9 days old?????? Gross.
Reply:A lot of these nursury rhymes were created during the renassaince, after the black plague wiped out part of europe. Many of them are morose and morbid. Ring around the rosies is about the black plague. People believe that keeping posies in your pockets would help prevent contraction of the disease. "Ashes, ashes, we all fall down" is from the burning of the dead bodies. when the ashes got blown in the air and dropped on children, the disease could still be carried on them and kill the children.
Reply:Probably because sing-songs were a way of remebering things back in the day when 1/2 the people on the planet couldnt read or write.





Ring Around the Rosie - is about getting the plague!!!
Reply:i have no idea lol





have you realised that most lullabys/nursery rhymes are about death/drugs etc, puff the magig dragon is drugs, ring a ring a rosey is a a diesease (forgot which)
Reply:LOL... I always thought the same thing... I even got mad when my mother started singing it to my daughter... she was tiny then, maybe a few weeks old!!





Raffi's "Baby Beluga" has been our standard lullaby. I don't think he meant it as one, but it works for us!!
Reply:hillarious I swear I thought that the other day my baby likes hush lil baby and I don't know any of it except for the beginning lol!! also the itsy bitsy spider minus the hand effects I stopped singing rock a bye!!
Reply:It is strange, isn't it? But the baby doesn't know what the words mean. Babies are lulled to sleep by the soft tones and gentle rhythms. Maybe they came up with the weird words to make it more interesting for parents who have to sing it over and over.
Reply:LMFAO.....I've been feeling the same thing. I stopped singing it.....and even humming it....because picturing my child falling from tree tops.....ain't all that soothing.
Reply:Here is a link with info about the songs origin:


http://www.rhymes.org.uk/rock_a_bye_baby...





And to respond to a previous answerer, Ring Around the Rosey is about the bubonic plague....lovely, eh?!