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Rock-A-Bye Baby V
oil on wood panel
12 x 12 x 2"
2012
Rock-A_Bye Baby IV is based upon a familiar 17th century English dangling song. Its origin is obscure. Maybe it originated when the colonists saw that native peoples hung their infant's "cradles" from branch limbs.
I recall singing this jingle to my infants. The last line: "When the bough breaks/ the cradle will fall/ and down will go baby/cradle and all," could reveal a wish or, a fear.
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.