Rockabye Baby Lullaby has a couple sets of commonly heard lyrics: the most common is the one that has the cradle making a journey from the tree to the ground, and may have been connected with political intrigue surrounding William of Orange and others in the English revolution of 1688 in which King James II was deposed.
Alternately, it has been propounded that the song had its roots in a large English family of that time that lived in a tree and hollowed out a large bough for the baby to sleep in. At any rate, the alternate lyric has the child safe and sound, which is just fine with us,...
