Rockin' Their Babies

Story Behind The Song

My young daughter needed to know about a female ancestor for an ancestor project at school. We looked through family records and discovered my great great grandmother, who died giving birth to her third child in the mid 1800s in Illinois.

Song Description

In story form, this song pays tribute to all the women who never made the history books, but truly made history by "rockin' their babies" and shaping generations.

Song Length 4:00 Genre Blues - Rock, Folk - Rural
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Poignant, Annoyed Subject Girls, Women
Language English

Lyrics

Rockin' Their Babies

My little girl showed me a letter
she needed the name of her ancestor for school
said, "momma here's the rules:
I need to know a lot about it
How they dressed, where there home was and also
She needs to be a woman."
Well, I could mostly think of names of my great grandpas long ago, and I thought
"Nobody knows the names of the ladies, cause they were at home
Rockin' their babies"

CHORUS
Who can say why they're forgotten this way?
Who can say why when their love runs in our veins?
But I think heaven remembers all of those ladies
Cause they made history
Rockin' their babies

So we looked up a name, my daughter and I
But there wasn't much she ever did that we could find
(except for shaping young minds)
Not a lot to write, just the life of a family
Must have cooked and sewed and washed their clothes in her love
and that was enough
I told my precious girl how that mother's life was cut so short
It's hard to even find the name of that lady,
She died giving birth....
To her third baby

CHORUS

For those they loved they poured their lives out without price
There's nothin' ordinary about that sacrifice

CHORUS
Who can say why they're forgotten this way?
Who can say why when their lives runs in our veins?
But I think heaven knows each and every lady
who still make history
Rockin' their babies.

(c) The Pearsons, Phoenix Blue Music/BMI Marie.Pearson@juno.com

Lyrics Larry Pearson & Marie Pearson Music The Pearsons
Publisher Phoenix Blue Music

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