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    Thanks to John Henderson and his own contribution of his own poems, mostly in the Dorric language. However John is also responsible for sending us in books of poems which over the past year we've been adding to the site. We still get individual poems sent into us by various contributors and here is one that came in today...

    A wee poem (song) about Scotsmen, cheers!!! --

    Hush, hush, time tae be sleepin
    Hush, hush, dreams come a-creepin
    Dreams o peace an o freedom

    Sae smile in your sleep, bonnie baby

    Once our valleys were ringin
    Wi sounds o our children singin
    But nou sheep bleat till the evenin
    An shielings stand empty an broken

    Hush, hush, time tae be sleepin
    Hush, hush, dreams come a-creepin
    Dreams o peace an o freedom
    Sae smile in your sleep, bonnie baby

    We stood, wi heads bowed in prayer
    While factors laid our cottages bare
    The flames fired the clear mountain air
    An many lay dead in the mornin

    Hush, hush, time tae be sleepin
    Hush, hush, dreams come a-creepin
    Dreams o peace an o freedom
    Sae smile in your sleep, bonnie baby

    Where was our fine Highland mettle,
    Our men once sae fearless in battle?
    They stand, cowed, huddled like cattle
    Soon tae be shipped owre the ocean

    Hush, hush, time tae be sleepin
    Hush, hush, dreams come a-creepin
    Dreams o peace an o freedom
    Sae smile in your sleep, bonnie baby

    No use pleading or praying
    All hope gone, no hope of staying
    Hush, hush, the anchor's a-weighing
    Don't cry in your sleep, bonnie baby

    Hush, hush, time tae be sleepin
    Hush, hush, dreams come a-creepin
    Dreams o peace an o freedom
    Sae smile in your sleep, bonnie baby

    Alastair
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