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Rock a bye baby on the
When the wind blows the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and
The rhyme is believed to have first appeared in print in ''[[Mother Goose]]'s Melody'' (London c. 1765),<ref name="Opie70">{{Cite book |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes | editor-last1=Opie |editor-first1=Iona | editor-last2=Opie |editor-first2=Peter |editor-link=Iona and Peter Opie |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |year=1997| edition=2nd |page=70 |isbn=978-0-19-860088-6}}</ref> possibly published by [[John Newbery]], and which was reprinted in Boston in 1785.<ref name="M. Prichard, 1984 pp. 326" /> No copies of the first edition are extant, but a 1791 edition has the following words:<ref name="Prideaux">{{Cite book |last=Prideaux |first=WF |title=Mother Goose's Melody : A facsimile reproduction of the earliest known edition |publisher=AH Bullen |year=1904 |location=London |pages=39}} A reproduction of ''Mother Goose's Melody : Or, Sonnets for the Cradle'', published by Francis Power (grandson to the late Mr J Newbery), London, 65 St Paul's Chuchyard, 1791.</ref>
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