The words – originally "hush-a-bye baby," not "rock-a-bye" – first appeared in writing in Mother Goose's Melody, a ...

but for the purposes of a lullaby you can selectively pull from the chorus – which feels perfectly suited for a baby: "You make me happy when skies are grey." First recorded in 1939, the song ...

Take a look at Snuggle Up and Choose a Book above for an example of a made-up lullaby. "The first thing to say is that baby loves the sound of your voice and will be familiar with it from before ...

singing a lullaby to get a baby or small child to sleep is a tradition that spans countries and cultures. On Friday 22 November, soul icon Gregory Porter is singing the first ever CBeebies bedtime ...

Tjitji Lullaby (meaning child in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara languages) sings baby animals to sleep as the sun sets ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First ...