Rockin' the Cradle
Traditional
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- [Traditional]
- Language
- English
- Comments
- aka "Rocking Me Babies", "A Wee One", "The Charlady's Son" [Roud 357; AFS 95; Ballad Index R393; MusTrad DB23; Bodleian Roud 357; Mudcat 119823; trad.] The well-known lamentation of the old man left at home by a young wife “rocking the baby that’s none of his own”. The tune has a long and interesting history, carrying a lullaby or a carol in the Irish-speaking parts of Ireland, a lyrical complaint in Australia, and a cowboy song, Git Along Little Dogies, in the western states of America.
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