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Thread #87415 Message #1631644
Posted By: GUEST,Gabe Ragland
20-Dec-05 - 04:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I Sing No Psalm...
Subject: I Sing No Psalm...
If anyone can name this old carol and maybe provide the complete lyrics, I'd appreciate it.
"Shoon-a-shoon, I sing no psalm, little man, Although I am out of David's House and clan. Shoon-a-shoon, I sing no psalm...
Hush-a-hoo, whirring of wings... Hush-a-hoo, stirring of strings...
Though in slumber deep, His ear can hear my song of sleep."
It has to be Irish, but it has a distinctly Hebraic melody. Always sort of felt as if it went with "O Come, Emmanuel".