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

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....
it's just a lull that was made up, that the tone of the way the words were sung or said soothe the baby to sleep
Reply:Funny how alot of Nursery Rhymes are so violent.
Reply:not me .......


I sing Pirate songs and Gambling songs to my 7 mths old ......


Yo Ho Blow The Man Down ..........
Reply:I don't. I have three boys. We usually say prayers, and then the kids scream for what stuffed toys they want that night, and lights out!!
Reply:Because old rhymes like that are always morbid. Read Grim fairy tales as they were written before Disney butchered them
Reply:always wondered about that my self... also don't know anybody who knows the words to Brahms Lullaby, used to sing the lyrics to Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" when my son was a baby to get a reaction from my wife.
Reply:good point...
Reply:Because it is a soothing melodic song that your baby will ever remember without thinking about the words. Is "Three Blind Mice" or "Itsy Bitsy Spider" any less traumatic in lyric?
Reply:Because were creeps.
Reply:"Rock-a-bye Baby" may be an American nursery rhyme and lullaby, whose melody may be a variant of the English satirical ballad "Lilliburlero". Originally titled "Hushabye Baby", this nursery rhyme was said to be the first poem written on American soil. Although there is no evidence as to when the lyrics were written, it may date from the 1600s. It is rumoured that it was written by a young pilgrim who sailed to America on the Mayflower. He was said to have observed the way native-American women rocked their babies in birch-bark cradles, which were suspended from the branches of trees, allowing the wind to rock the baby to sleep. However, the branches holding the cradles sometimes had a habit of breaking, causing the cradle to fall and the baby in it to get hurt...(Wiki)
Reply:Good question. Ring around the Rosie is a song that was sung during the plague when they burned the bodies. Pretty macabre civilization, aren't we?
Reply:we are sadists.
Reply:I dont think it is the words of the song, but the actually tune and lullaby.
Reply:I have asked my self this question way to many times. But when you get down to it, usally the kids you are singing it to have no clue what you are saying. And it seems to rhyme well, most of these were "made" a long time ago, so that would be about it. It sounded good at the time.