Did that Rock-a-Bye Baby lullaby creep anyone else out during childhood?!


Question: I'm sorry, man...one of my neighbors hooks up a cradle to a treetop, I'm calling Child Protective Services. No joke.

"When the wind blows, the cradle will rock"? Duh. And the kid will scream in terror.

"And when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall." Gravity IS the law, after all...and a cradle full o' baby is no exception. Which leads us to:

"And down will come baby, cradle and all."

Splat! And along with it, someone's Parent of the Year contender chances go way down.


Answers: I'm sorry, man...one of my neighbors hooks up a cradle to a treetop, I'm calling Child Protective Services. No joke.

"When the wind blows, the cradle will rock"? Duh. And the kid will scream in terror.

"And when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall." Gravity IS the law, after all...and a cradle full o' baby is no exception. Which leads us to:

"And down will come baby, cradle and all."

Splat! And along with it, someone's Parent of the Year contender chances go way down.

Well, lyrically the song is surely cause for many otherwise well-rounded children growing up and crossing over into the trendy world of sadomasochism, where they can act out their confusions of love and pain (c'mon, you're loving mom singing you a song about comfortably swaying only to possible hit the ground at breakneck speeds...ouch.)

I understand that renditions of this song by Bob Marley and Nirvana do more for people than the parentally-delivered version. At least with the later, you can sway a cigarette lighter in the air.

In any event, I would never hang my children from a tree like that. I'd make sure they had a bottle first because falling from heights on an empty stomach is just plain cruel.

i totally agree. that is a creepy song about a baby dying!

No, but Ring Around The Rosie did, since it was about the Plague.

It didnt creap me out as a child. But now it does...

Precisely my reaction as well. Pretty creepy. Never sang it to my kids either.

lol now that you mention it

it is kinda creepy

Kinda, who thought that would be a good idea to sing to a child? Hey, sonny, hope you don't fall out of a tree and die. Sweet dreams.

yeah its a stupid song but no i was not song to as a child

This is my favoritestest baby lullabye song:

"Hush little baby, don't say a word.
Mommy is gonna kill you a mockingbird.
If that mocking bird gets dead,
Mommy is gonna poke you in the head ..."

Hey, I didn't write this crap.

* don't shoot the messenger *

I understand that it originates from indians that would hang the baby in a crib or hammock type blanket suspended from a tree. The breeze would lul the baby to sleep.

It is a bit creepy when the rhyme seems to suggest that the baby fell out.

yeah - but whats worse is 'ring o' roses'.

ring o ring o roses
a pocket full of posies
atishoo! atishoo!
we all fall down.

this rhyme was about the black death, or the plague.

No kidding! Makes you wonder why anyone would sing something like that to their most precious gift!!

Oh yes. Now it makes me think of the movie "The Goonies". Sloth Fratelli's Mama wins Parent of the Year!

haha yep

When your a kid you dont really care about what it means. Now its kinda like child abuse lol

All of mother goose was creepy,think about just about how many kids were running through the forest with no parent in sight.



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