Friday, September 19, 2025

An Indian Lullaby

 An Indian Lullaby 

(A HYMN)

Rock-a-by, rock-a-by, little brown baby.
Safe on the green branch so high,
 Shut your bright black eyes and go 
sleep, baby, 
While the wood-wing sings, "Hush- 
a -by-by." 

"Hush-a-by-hush" 'tis the voice of 
forest, 
"Hush-a-by-hush "the leaves seem 
to say, 
"Hush-a-by-hush" sing the wild birds 
in chorus, 
Up in the tree tops so far, far away.

Rock-a-by, rock-a-by, swinging so  
gently,
See, from the dark woods so cool and 
so deep, 
The little gray squirrel, the timid 
brown rabbit
 Are coming to see if papoose is
asleep.

Mother will watch by her little brown 
baby, 
Swinging aloft on the green branches 
so high, 
No harm can come to the little brown 
baby 
Hush-a-by, rock-a-by, hush-a-by-by. 

BY - Selected(THIS IS THE NATIONAL NATIVE INDIAN LULLABY OF THE NATIVE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE NORTH AMERICA) 

ORIGINAL  HYMN, RECITATION AND THE MOTION LULLABY  SONG WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL  MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR OCTOBER  1927 

THE ORIGINAL  HYMN, RECOMMENDED TO THE PURITAN SCHOOL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  THE ORIGINAL LULLABY OF THE NORTHERN AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES AND THE HISTORICAL LULLABY OF THE PILGRIMS, THE  RECITATION AND THE  MOTION SONG WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
NORMAL INSTRUCTOR OCTOBER  1927 

THIS HYMN WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS THE MOTION SONG FOR THE PLAY ABOUT THE PILGRIMS FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE THANKSGIVING DAY AND THE CELEBRATION OF THE  COLUMBUS DAY.