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Thread #3435   Message #2634775
Posted By: Jim Dixon
18-May-09 - 11:35 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Highland Cradle Song
Subject: Lyr Add: HIGHLAND CRADLE SONG (Burns?, Schumann)
From The School Song Book by Osbourne McConathy (Boston: C. C. Birchard & Company, 1910):


HIGHLAND CRADLE SONG
Words, Robert Burns. Music, Robert Schumann.

1. Slumber sweetly, little Donald,
Image of the greater Ronald,
Little thief, from whom thy name,
Let the noble Clan proclaim,
Let the noble Clan proclaim.

2. Thou hast eyes like coals revealing
How a foal thou'lt soon be stealing;
Bravely to the valley go,
Thence bring home a Carlisle cow,
Thence bring home a Carlisle cow.

3. In the Lowlands thou shalt tarry,
Booty from the plains to carry;
Steal till fortune swell thy train,
Then the Highlands seek again,
Then the Highlands seek again.


[However, if these words are truly by Robert Burns, I wonder why Google doesn't find them in any of the many volumes of Burns poems that are indexed at Google Books?]