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|f_annotation='''ROCK ALL MY/THE BABIES TO SLEEP.'''  American, Waltz (3/4 time). USA, Missouri. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB. A waltz derived from a song of the same name that was recorded by a number of early country music stars, including Jimmie Rodgers (1932), Uncle Dave Macon (1926), and the Leake County Ramblers (1928). The lyrics depict a man who stays at home ‘rocking all the babies to sleep’, deserted by a wife who has left to enjoy the nightlife of the town. The song was derived from "Hush-a-bye Baby," recorded by George P. Watson in 1910. 
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'''ROCK ALL MY/THE BABIES TO SLEEP.'''  Old-Time, Waltz (3/4 time). USA, Missouri. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB. A waltz derived from a song of the same name that was recorded by a number of early country music stars, including Jimmie Rodgers (1932), Uncle Dave Macon (1926), and the Leake County Ramblers (1928). The lyrics depict a man who stays at home ‘rocking all the babies to sleep’, deserted by a wife who has left to enjoy the nightlife of the town. The song was derived from "Hush-a-bye Baby," recorded by George P. Watson in 1910. 
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The tune is known in Yorkshire as “[[Fire Burning Bright]].”  
The tune is known in Yorkshire as “[[Fire Burning Bright]].”  
|f_source_for_notated_version=Lonnie Robertson (1908-1981, Springfield, Mo.), who learned it in Shenandoah, Iowa, during a stint playing for a radio station there  [Beisswenger & McCann].  
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Hear Lonnie Robertson's recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/rock-all-babies-sleep]<br>
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<font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - Lonnie Robertson (1908-1981, Springfield, Mo.), who learned it in Shenandoah, Iowa, during a stint playing for a radio station there  [Beisswenger & McCann].  
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Beisswenger & McCann ('''Ozarks Fiddle Music'''), 2008; p. 125.  
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - Bear Family Records ‎BCD 15540, Jimmie Rodgers ‎– "The Singing Brakeman" (1992). Rounder CD 0375, Lonnie Robertson – “Lonnie’s Breakdown” (1996. Originally recorded 1978).  
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See also listing at:<br>
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/r07.htm#Rocalthb]<br>
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ROCK ALL MY/THE BABIES TO SLEEP. American, Waltz (3/4 time). USA, Missouri. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB. A waltz derived from a song of the same name that was recorded by a number of early country music stars, including Jimmie Rodgers (1932), Uncle Dave Macon (1926), and the Leake County Ramblers (1928). The lyrics depict a man who stays at home ‘rocking all the babies to sleep’, deserted by a wife who has left to enjoy the nightlife of the town. The song was derived from "Hush-a-bye Baby," recorded by George P. Watson in 1910.

The tune is known in Yorkshire as “Fire Burning Bright.”


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Lonnie Robertson (1908-1981, Springfield, Mo.), who learned it in Shenandoah, Iowa, during a stint playing for a radio station there [Beisswenger & McCann].

Printed sources : - Beisswenger & McCann (Ozarks Fiddle Music), 2008; p. 125.

Recorded sources : - Bear Family Records ‎BCD 15540, Jimmie Rodgers ‎– "The Singing Brakeman" (1992). Rounder CD 0375, Lonnie Robertson – “Lonnie’s Breakdown” (1996. Originally recorded 1978).

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Lonnie Robertson's recording at Slippery Hill [2]

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