Be lulled to sleep by the beautiful music from Cape Breton. This piece is a part of a part of Peninsula Women's Chorus' prize winning "Nature Pictures" album (2nd prize, the American Prize for Choral Performance).

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Details:
Cape Breton Lullaby
words & music by Kenneth Leslie (1892 - 1974)
arr. Stuart Calvert

Driftwood is burning blue, wild walk the wall shadows,
Night winds go riding by, riding by the lochie meadows.
On to the ring of day flows Mira's stream, singing:
Caidil gu la laddie, la, laddie, sleep the stars away.

Far on Beinn Bhreagh's side wander the lost lambies.
Here, there and everywhere, everywhere their troubled mammies
Find them and fold them deep, fold them to sleep, singing:
Caidil gu la laddie, la, laddie, sleep the moon away.

Daddy is on the bay, he'll keep the pot brewin',
Keep all from tumblin' down, tumblin' down to rack and ruin;
Pray, Mary, send him home safe from the foam, singing:
Caidil gu la laddie, la, laddie, sleep the dark away.