...tilt in the breeze makes a good rocker of the old-fashioned sort. " Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock ; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall ; Down comes baby, cradle, and all." But it is a very hard wind that can break one of these rocker boughs...

...Nothing. Old Woman Something will come. Some fragment. Trust me. Pause. Then Bruise Rock . . . a-bye, baby . . . On the treetop. When the wind . . . blows...breaks The cradle will fall. Down will come baby, Cradle and all. Slight pause. Old Woman For thirty-six nights the Queen sang this song. And for thirty-six...

...familiarity with the subject in working with countless parents A Popular Liillul'y Rock-a-bye, baby, In the treetop, When the wind blows The cradle will rock; When the bough breaks The cradle will fall, And down will come baby, Cradle and all. who have coped with sleep resistant babies, I often find myself...

...of the type, but the text, published a century earlier, 8 is not: Rock-a-Bye Baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall— And down will come baby, cradle and all. It is not the sort of reassurance that the world as a whole...

...full of posies. Ashes, ashes. We all fall down! Rock-a-Bye, Baby Rock-a-bye, baby, On the tree top. When the wind blows, The cradle will rock. When the bough breaks. The cradle will fall, And down will come baby. Cradle and all. Row, Row, Row Your Boat Row, row, row your boat Gently down...

...birds in a tall tree next door. The baby was thrown up into the air: rock-a-bye baby in the tree tops, when the wind blows the cradle will rock, when the...breaks the cradle will fall, down will come baby, cradle and all. At exactly the same moment when the baby was thrown into the air, the air rifle was...

...and we unfortunately were late to awaken to the fact that we can die laughing.36 "Rockabye Baby, in the treetop; When the wind blows, the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall; And down will come baby, cradle and all." This American nursery song, with its soft and sweet melody,...

...think about the words to the children's lullaby, "Rock-a-bye Baby" ("Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top. When the wind blows the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all.") The words are actually pretty gruesome, yet because of the...

...have to see her face. She turns me around and around slowly, and we move downstream, and she sings, "When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, and down will come Travis, cradle and all." She opens her eyes and leans down, and I see her lips coming....

...word, and the wind in the word, would bring more powerful forces. "Rock-a-bye baby in the tree tops, / When the wind blows the cradle will rock./ When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, / And down will come baby, cradle, and all." Legitimate or changeling, the baby was to be no match...