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Thread #49128   Message #740888
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
02-Jul-02 - 03:58 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Lullaby of an Infant Chief
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Lullaby of an Infant Chief
The song also appears in Hugh S. Roberton's Songs of the Isles (1950) as Highland Cradle Song (Hush Thee, My Babie), set to a "Traditional Highland Tune". The text is set with a traditional refrain in Gaelic, and only the first couplet and the last two of those given above are used. The full Scott text appears as Hush thee, my Baby in Alfred Moffat's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands, also with the Gaelic refrain and set to the same tune. It is accompanied by a full Gaelic text, Caidil gu Lò, three verses of which are described as "Old"; a further three were added by Malcolm MacFarlane. It seems to have the same general tenor as the Scott text, but the latter is not a translation of it.