Rock-a-Bye Baby
Originally titled "Hushabye Baby", this nursery rhyme is sometimes said to be the first poem written in America.
Although there is no evidence as to when the lyrics were actually written, it's interesting that it may date to the 1600s. The story goes that a young pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower wrote this widely loved song.
He was said to have observed native American women rocking their babies in birch-bark cradles.
They sometimes suspended those cradles from the branches of trees and allowed the rocking of the wind to help their baby fall asleep.
However, that is but one story. Another tradition credits the lullaby to a relative of Davy Crockett, nearly two centuries later.
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