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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Noreen Date: 24 Jul 02 - 01:17 PM Welcome, Jim. I love this song. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: GUEST,Jim Mclean Date: 24 Jul 02 - 01:13 PM I wrote the song as Smile in your Sleep and it is published by Carlin Music under this title. I set to Mist covered Mountains of Home although it varies in places due to the mood of the words. Cheers, Jim Mclean |
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Subject: Tune Add: THE MIST COVERED MOUNTAINS From: GUEST,Philippa Date: 24 Jul 02 - 10:11 AM the DT doesn't include the tune, but it has been posted (from Barry Taylor's contemplator site transcription of Mist Covered Mountains) on Mudcat: a href=http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7564#45749> tune added Click to get the midi, I am pasting the abc into this thread. X:1 T:THE MIST COVERED MOUNTAINS M:3/4 Q:1/4=134 K:C A6|A6|e3de2|e3dB2|G6|G4A2|B3AB2|A3GE2|c6| d6|e3^fg2|B3AG2|A3Be2|d3cB2|A6|A6|A6|A6|e3de2| e3dB2|G6|G4A2|B3AB2|A3GE2|c6|d6|e3^fg2|B3AG2| A3Be2|d3cB2|A6|A6|e6|e6|d3eg2|e3dB2|G4G2| d4B2|e4e2|d3cB2|A6|c6|d3eg2|B3AG2|A3Be2|d3cB2| A6|A6|e6|e6|d3eg2|e3dB2|G4G2|d4B2|e4e2|d3cB2| A6|c6|d3eg2|B3AG2|A3Be2|d3cB2|A6|A6|-A2|| |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: GUEST,Philippa Date: 24 Jul 02 - 09:49 AM refreshing because Jim MacLean has joined Mudcat |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Alice Date: 27 Nov 99 - 05:06 PM Susan, I think Allistair McLean was the recording the fiddler mentioned to me.... rings a bell. Now that I think of it, it does sound like a version of Mist Covered Mountains. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Susan A-R Date: 27 Nov 99 - 04:19 PM I heard this one on an Allistair McLean recording (not sure if I have the spelling of his name right,) along with a lot of other Clearances songs, incuding Shores of Sutherland, another thread a week or two back. I don't think it's Mist Covered Mountains, but then folk music does interesting things to tune names and such. It sounds as if it is a recent song, though? Is this the case, or did this person collect it? Susan A-R |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Lesley N. Date: 27 Nov 99 - 01:08 PM I first heard the song in Inverness as Hush, Hush - and looked for it a long time under that title without finding it same as you!
There are so many alternate titles to so many tunes! I used to get tons of mail asking for a tune that was already on my pages - so I put the search engine up. It's pretty slow because there's so much to go through (I'd like to find one that would be speedy, cheap and not add a lot of extra storage space... every webmaster in the world in laughing..) It will find stuff by phrase - sort of a poor person's mudcat type of search. A lot of people start there because they don't like the background music! Of course the search engine isn't perfect either. There are several ways to spell bonnie, etc, etc, etc... Just look at all the trouble we have at the cat! I sometimes still can't figure out why something doesn't show up when it's there all the time! |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: sophocleese Date: 27 Nov 99 - 10:47 AM I always called it Hush, Hush. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Alice Date: 27 Nov 99 - 09:36 AM So, what I am reading is that there are variations of the tune when sung with these lullaby lyrics. It really threw me off when I heard it played by the fiddle player here, since I have known the Mist Covered Mountains (oro soon shall I see them) for a very long time, but this one sounded different. Lesley, your website was one of the first I looked through for the tune, along with Robinson's, but I wasn't using the titles people have called it in this list.
Mick, thanks for the Factor.
So, what is the most often used title for this song?
I'll have to ask the fiddle player again what recording he got this from. -alice flynn |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 27 Nov 99 - 02:37 AM For very fine rendition of "Hush, Hush" check out Bobby Watt's (ex-Cromdale) first solo CD, "Homeland". For a lovely version of "Mist-covered ..." in Gaelic, look for the Rankin Family; their first self-titled CD, I do believe. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Jon Freeman Date: 26 Nov 99 - 10:45 PM I don't know whether its a 6th or what but again, the version of the tune I learned is slightly different in terms of a note being flattened or sharpened. Jon |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Jeri Date: 26 Nov 99 - 10:33 PM The version in the DT has the "mettle" verse, but not the third verse Alice posted. Other differences, too. Don't Cry In Your Sleep |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: sophocleese Date: 26 Nov 99 - 10:27 PM Well I've just listened to the tune as played on Lesley N's site. I sing it a little differently. There he's/she's (?) playing that raised 6th of the minor scale, I sing that flatter, as Cindy Ellen said. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Lesley N. Date: 26 Nov 99 - 10:17 PM The words are by Jim MacLean who set them to Mist Covered Mountains. I have the words, a midi by Barry Taylor and a link to the lyrics of MCM at: Smile in Your Sleep (http://www.contemplator.com/folk3/hushhush.html) |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: sophocleese Date: 26 Nov 99 - 10:11 PM Cindy Ellen my husband, a piper, just pointed out to me that when played on the pipes in Bm the G would be a natural. What would happen if a crazy fiddler got hold of it I don't know.... |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Jon Freeman Date: 26 Nov 99 - 09:40 PM Just wish I could find or know the tune to The Mist Covered Mountains - have known the son "Hush Hush..." for years (incedentally the person I learnt it fro did use the "Hush Hush Time to be sleeping..." as both first verse and chorus) but can't find the other tune to compare with what I learned. Jon |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Nov 99 - 09:31 PM Doesn't work as a lullaby though, took my daughter to a song session at a festival (supposed to be my outing alone, but stupid SO double booked himself and couldn't get another babysitter, grrr grrr), and she yelled all the way through it. Took her out and up to a screaming heaving dance tent and she was asleep in under 10 minutes... Contrary little cow that she is..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: CE Morgan Date: 26 Nov 99 - 09:28 PM A wonderful song! The tune is indeed the same as "The Mist-Covered Mountains": however, when our group sings it, it's in A minor, so the F remains natural. Instrumental versions I have are the same notes, but with a G key sig, so the F gets sharpened. It makes for a very different sound. I am a new member of this group, so I'm not too sure what their source was. Lyrics are the same as you listed, although you have an additional verse not in our version ("where was our highland mettle"), which I really like, so I think I'm going to see about adding it to our version! Cindy Ellen |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Big Mick Date: 26 Nov 99 - 09:27 PM Absolutely beautiful song, which I have been singing for about 10 years now. I heard Barley Bree do it, and fell in love with it. It tells a story of the Highland Evictions. This was a period in time when Merry Old England decided, as they did in Ireland, that the trouble with Scotland was those cursed Scottish Highlanders. So they set about evicting them from their land, killing the Clan leaders, etc. By the way, in the third verse, second line, the second word should be "factors" not "battles". The Factor was the man who carried out the Lord's wishes, and usually handled the financial end of things. In the movie "Rob Roy" this man that was taken to the Island and killed by Macgregor's wife. In most cases they were not well liked. I just had a few minutes and popped in. I miss you all, and will be back on a regular basis in 3 to 4 weeks. All the best, Mick |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: Alice Date: 26 Nov 99 - 08:50 PM There are two different tunes that are called Mist Covered Mountains, and the one for this lullaby I have also heard called Mist on the Mountain. If you put "Mist" in the forum search and set the days to 3 years, you will find the Mist Covered Mountains threads, including the one that provides Gaelic. That is the one I think you are referring to ... Oro, soon shall I see them, oh hee ro, see them oh, see them....
This tune to the lullaby is played by a couple of the fiddle players at our session, and I know it is a bit varied from the other Mist Covered Mountains. The fiddle player that wrote out the lyrics mentioned a recording that he has of it, but I can't remember the name of the band who did it. If no one here comes up with it, I'll ask him some other time. Maybe they are just playing it in their own variation so that it doesn't sound so much the same to me. -alice |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Hush, hush time to be sleeping From: sophocleese Date: 26 Nov 99 - 08:40 PM Alice, I have a record of Cromdale doing this. It is sung to the tune of Mist Covered Mountains.Could there have been a mix up in the name somewhere? What you've written as the first verse is used as the chorus. Cromdale add an instrumental break using another tune called The Haunting, together they sound very lovely. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SMILE IN YOUR SLEEP (Jim McLean)^^^ From: Alice Date: 26 Nov 99 - 08:32 PM A friend sent me lyrics to the lullaby that is called, I think, Mist On The Mountain (NOT Mist Covered Mountains). I don't know if this is trad or has a known author. Here is what he wrote, without the title:
Hush, hush, time to be sleeping,
Once our valleys were ringing,
We stood with heads bowed in prayer,
Where was our fierce highland mettle,
No use in crying or pleading, -alice Note:This song, properly known as "Smile in Your Sleep," was written by Jim McLean. It appears unattributed in the Digital Tradition, under the title Don't Cry In Your Sleep (click). I submitted a corrected attribution to the Digital Tradition, and the correction has been made.-Joe Offer-
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