"The Clearances Lullaby" genre: World/Folk Cover Songs
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	The tune is traditional however the lyrics were written by Jim McLean and tell the story of the savagery and mass deportations of the Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries. The lullaby is followed immediately by a second lullaby from the Simon Fraser collection - 1816 - entitled "Who will Dandle my Mary".
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	Lyrics Once our bothies were ringing With sounds of our children singing But no sheep bleat of an evening And shielings stand empty and broken Chorus Hush, hush, time to be sleeping Hush, hush, dreams come a-creeping Dreams of beasts and of fields So smile in your sleep, bonnie baby We stood, with heads bowed in prayer While wreckers laid our cottages bare The flames fired the clean mountain air And many were dead by the morning Chorus Where was our proud Highland mettle, Our men once so fearless in battle? They stand, cowed, huddled like cattle And weeped to be shipped o'er the ocean Chorus No use in greeting or praying No good, gone, our hope of staying Hush, hush, the anchor's a-weighing Don't die in your sleep, bonnie baby

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