Content: First line of refrain: Rockaway baby, the ocean breezes blows.
Content: First line of text: Go to sleep and close those pretty eyes.
Content: For voice and piano.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Funding: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Statement Of Responsibility: lyric by Ballard MacDonald ; music by Harry Piani and Sammy Stept.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 score (3 p.) : ill. ; 32 cm.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14693470
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 780f7430-c5ff-012f-7382-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

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MLA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Rockaway baby" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1920. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/780f7430-c5ff-012f-7382-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1920). Rockaway baby Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/780f7430-c5ff-012f-7382-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Rockaway baby" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/780f7430-c5ff-012f-7382-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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