Rock-a-Bye, Baby: notes for 8 instruments
“Rock-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top…” Pick your instrument. Each page shows the notes in the easiest key that fits it, with a play-along player and a print sheet.
- PianoLetters · C majorE4–F5 Medium
- KalimbaTabs · C majorE4–F5 Medium
- RecorderLetters · B♭ majorD4–E♭5 Medium
- FluteLetters · C majorE4–F5 Medium
- ViolinLetters · C majorE4–F5 Medium
- ClarinetLetters · C major (written)E3–F4 Medium
- TrumpetValves · A major (written)C♯4–D5 Medium
- Alto SaxLetters · C major (written)E4–F5 Medium
Not on bells & xylophone, harmonica: no key keeps every note on those instruments without sharps, flats or bends.
Words (first verse)
Rockabye, baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows the cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle and all.
About this song
- Melody
- Effie I. Canning, 1916
- Words
- Traditional, 1916 (first verse shown)
- Public domain
- Melody 1916, words 1916: first published before 1931.
- Source
- Songs the Children Love to Sing (D. Appleton, 1916), p. 48, “Rock-a-Bye, Baby” (regular version) (1916)