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Thread #21937 Message #2197010
Posted By: Jim Dixon
18-Nov-07 - 04:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Baloo Balleerie
Subject: Lyr Add: A BRESSAY CRADLE-SONG
This text can be found in Dae Ye Min' Langsyne? A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood by Amy Stewart Fraser, 1975. It is called a "Bressay cradle-song":
Baloo, balilo, baloo, balilo,
Baloo, balilo, baloo, balilo,
Gae awa' peerie fairies
Fae wir peerie bairn.
Baloo, balilo, baloo, balilo,
Baloo, balilo, baloo, balilo,
Dan come bonnie angels
Ta wir peeire bairn.
Baloo, balilo, baloo, balilo,
Baloo, balilo, baloo, balilo,
Dey'll sheen ower da cradle
O' wir peerie bairn.
Baloo, balilo, baloo, balilo.