Re: Any Traditional American nursery rhymes?
Posted by glo on April 26, 2001 at 09:02:04:
In Reply to: Any Traditional American nursery rhymes? posted by Heather Buchanan on March 07, 2001 at 18:17:32:
"Rock-a-bye Baby" first appeared in "Mother Goose's Melody" (England, c1765). Legend has it, however, that the words were written by a Pilgrim youth who sailed to America on the "Mayflower" in 1620 and observed how the American Indian women hung birchbark cradles on tree branches where the wind could rock the cradles. It has been touted to be "the first poem produced on American soil ("Book Lover," 1904.)
There are other nursery rhymes you'll find in Mother Goose books that are by known authors - strictly speaking these are "nursery rhymes" rather than "Mother Goose" rhymes.
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