I came across a song I liked on MP3 awhile back, called "Hush" by a group calling themselves Tam Lyn, on an album called "The Gathering of Celtic Women":

http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/87/the_gathering.html

Well, the song seems very familiar to me, so today I did a quick Google search, which turned up lyrics for the song on Dick Gaughan's web page:

http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/songs/texts/hushhush.htm

Gaughan refers to the title as "Smile in Your Sleep" and says the lyrics were composed by Jim McLean, and set to the tune "Mist Covered Mountains"

Gaughan credits it thusly:

"Digital Tradition describes this as an old Scots lullaby -- it is anything but.

It is a modern song by Jim McLean about the savagery and mass deportations of what is now called the Highland Clearance during the 19th century when whole tribal communities were destroyed and the people shipped by force to Cape Breton and Nova Scotia."

So, I entered the title "Hush, Hush" in Digital Tradition, and the song came up under "Don't Cry in Your Sleep":

CHO: Hush, hush, time to be sleeping...

Anyone able to sort this out?

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Note from Joe Offer, 5 Sept 2002:
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)