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Rock-a-Bye Baby

Traditional English

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0:00 0:23 · ♩ = 92

ROCK-A-BYE BABY — MELODY + ACCOMPANIMENT Engraved with Verovio (verovio.org)

DIFFICULTY: Beginner
BARS: 12
SECTIONS: 2
TEMPO: ♩ = 92
MELODY NOTES: 57
PARTS: Melody + chords

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Traditional English lullaby (in print from 1711). Public domain. Melody encoded from the ABC transcription of the version collected by Maud Karpeles in Lynchburg, Virginia, and printed in the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (December 1951), via folkinfo.org and the John Chambers ABC collection; the tune is in 6/8, encoded here on a three-quarter-note bar grid.

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