The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #7924   Message #2230693
Posted By: Jim Lad
07-Jan-08 - 06:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cape Breton Lullaby (Kenneth Leslie)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cape Breton Lullaby
So here's a thing. One of the earlier posts remarked that this song is still under copy right.
Not according to my research. By Canadian copyright laws, the copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author. He died in 1937, if I remember correctly, which means that the copyrights expired the year before this thread was posted.
To do the chorus in English

Sleep 'ti the day laddie
La Laddie
Sleep the moon away.

Sleep the stars away

and finally

Sleep the dark away.