Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics:
Dont Cry in Your Sleep

Don't Cry in Your Sleep

Don't Cry in Your Sleep

CHO: Hush, hush, time to be sleeping
     Hush, hush, dreams come a-creeping
     Dreams of peace and of freedom
     So smile in your sleep, bonny baby

Once our valleys were ringing
With songs of our children singing
But now sheep bleat till the evening
And shielings lie empty and broken

Where is our proud highland mettle
Our troops once so fierce in battle
Now stand, cowed, huddled like cattle
And wait to be shipped o'er the ocean

No use pleading or praying
For gone, gone is all hope of staying
Hush, hush, the anchor's a-weighing
Don't cry in your sleep, bonny baby

MC