Origins: Hush! the waves are rolling in (lullaby)

Subject: Origins: Name to this song and origins?
From: Kudzuman
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 05:28 PM

There is a beautiful minor tune to this song, but the lady I got this from only knows it as a Scottish Lullaby. Anyone know more about this song. Title is what I mean since I have the tune. Thanks in advance to all!! Here are the words:


Hush! the waves are rolling in,
White with foam, white with foam;
Father toils amid the din
While baby sleeps at home.

Hush! the wind roars hoarse and deep
On they come, On they come;
Brother seeks the wand'ring sheep
While baby sleeps at home.

Hush! the rain sweeps o'er the knowes
Where they roam, where they roam;
Sister goes to seek the cows,
But baby sleeps at home.

Kudzuman

Subject: RE: Origins: Name to this song and origins?
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 05:44 PM

Well, THAT was fun! The only credited reference I could find to it was in the footnotes of a rather strange vampire tale at

http://www.shadows-and-dust.co.uk/Fiction3/thepriceyoupay11-15.htm

...which says Judy Collins recorded it under the name "Gaelic Lullaby" on a CD called "Baby's Bedtime."

Hope that helps!

Claire

Subject: RE: Origins: Name to this song and origins?
From: Willa
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 06:05 PM

This might help http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=judy+collins+gaelic+lullaby

Subject: RE: Origins: Name to this song and origins?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Aug 03 - 08:33 PM

The first stanza is also found in "Nantucket Lullaby." The tune is not the same. This is from B.A. Botkin, A Treasury of New England Folklore, rev. ed. (Crown, 1967, p. 571).

X:1
T:Nantucket Lullaby
M:6/8
L:1/8
B:B.A. Botkin, A Treasury of New England Folklore, p. 571
S:Early American Ballads, sung by John and Lucy Allison.
K:D
(F2DF2D|F3-F3)|F2 D C2 B,|
w:Hm_____ Hush! the waves are
(ED) C B,3|E2 D C3|E2 D C3|
w:roll - ing in, White with foam, white with foam,
B,2 B, B2 A|G2 F E2 B,|G2 G ^A,2 A,|B,6|]
w:Fa-ther toils a-mid the din, While ba-by sleeps at home.
W:
W:Hush, the waves are rolling in,
W:White with foam, white with foam,
W:Father toils amid the din,
W:While baby sleeps at home.
W:
W:Hush, the ship rides in the gale,
W:Where they roam, where they roam,
W:Father seeks the roving whale,
W:But baby sleeps at home.
W:
W:Hush, the wind sweeps o'er the deep,
W:All alone, all alone,
W:Mother now the watch will keep,
W:Till father's ship comes home.

From Early American Ballads, sung by John and Lucy Allison, with Chorus, Keynote Album K-102, Record 533-B, 2. New York: Keynote Recordings, Inc. Leaflet copyright, 1943, by Keynote Recordings, Inc. Transcribed by Frances Kurland.
To words of unknown origin, Lucy Allison made this setting in 1924, and for many yeras used the song in the folk ballad programs of the Allisons.--J.A.

No other information or reference is given at The Traditional Ballad Index: Nantucket Lullaby.