<Dd> Take him away till the apples are ripe; </Dd> <Dd> When they are ripe and ready to fall, </Dd> <Dd> Here comes baby, apples and all, woop woop . </Dd> <P> The words first appeared in print in Mother Goose's Melody (London, c. 1765), possibly published by John Newbery (1713--1767), and which was reprinted in Boston in 1785 . Rock - a-bye as a phrase was first recorded in 1805 in Benjamin Tabart's Songs for the Nursery, (London, 1805). </P>

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