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HUSH-A-BA BIRDIE CROON Hush-a-ba birdie, croon, croon, Hush-a-ba birdie, croon, The sheep are gane to the silver wood, And the cows are gane to the broom, broom. And it's braw milking the kye, kye, It's braw milking the kye, The birds are singing, the bells are ringing, The wild deer come galloping by, by. And hush-a-ba birdie, croon, croon, Hush-a-ba birdie, croon, The gaits are gane to the mountain hie, And they'll no be hame till noon, noon. _______________________________________________________ Chambers PRS (1870), 16, noting: "Mr John Richardson, of Kirklands, heard the words and music of this lullaby a great number of years ago (1858)." Ford CR 129, NAE (1932), 35, Moffat 50 TSNR (1933), 7, Montgomerie SNR 132 (no. 170), etc.; one of the most favourite bairnsangs, because one of the most evocatively poetic. Cf. "Ba wee birdie, birdie". @lullaby filename[ HUSHCRON WBO OCT98 |
Hush-a-ba Birdie Croon (Text apparantly from Chambers, Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1870) where I think no tune was given. A close variant in Alfred Moffat's Fifty Traditional Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1933) is cited; midi made from notation in that book. ) |
