Alex,

Here's another one.

HUSH HUSH

CHO.: Hush, hush, time to be sleeping
Hush, hush, no time for weeping
Hush, hush, dreams come a creeping
Smile in your sleep, bonnie baby.

Once our valleys were ringing
With sounds of our children singing
Now sheep feed and bleat til the evening
And ceilings stand empty and open CHO.

We stood with heads bowed in prayer
While factors laid our cottages bare
And screams filled the clear mountain air
And many were dead by the morning. CHO.

Where was our proud highland mettle
Our men once so fearless in battle
Now stand cowed huddled like cattle
And wait to be shipped o'er the ocean.

Hush, hush, time to be sleeping
Hush, hush, no time for weeping
Hush, hush, dreams come a creeping
Don't die in your sleep, bonnie baby.

I've also heard this as a bagpipe tune called "The Mist Covered Mountains".

Take care,
Timehiker

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 23-Apr-02.

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Note from Joe Offer:
This song, properly known as "Smile in Your Sleep," was written by Jim McLean. It appears unattributed in the Digital Tradition, under the title Don't Cry In Your Sleep (click). Tune and more complete lyrics are in this thread (click)