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SSA choir, piano (SSA choir)
Gone away peerie faeries.
Doun come the bonnie angels,
Sleep safe, my baby,
A way be to Bugaloos,
Smoke shrouds the inner room ('ben')
Sleep safe, my baby,
Smoor the peat fire,
Gone away peerie faeries.
Sleep safe, my baby.
Gone away peerie faeries,
Gone away night stealers,
Sleep safe, my baby.
SKU: AN.AMP-0429
Edited by Elaine Quilichini. Arranged by Eleanor Daley. Octavo. Alliance Music Publications #AMP 0429. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0429).Daley.
Ever fearful that their children would come to some harm from the 'Fae' or fairies, Scottishmothers would hang daisy chains around their children's necks or place iron pins in theirclothing. Both were said to ward off the 'fae.' This Scottish chant would have been sungto the children by their mothers over peat fires. (peat was cut from the land, dried and cured,and then burnt for heating and cooking in the winter time.) A longer version of the samewords exists:
Doun come the bonnie angels,
Sleep safe, my baby,
A way be to Bugaloos,
Smoke shrouds the inner room ('ben')
Sleep safe, my baby,
Smoor the peat fire,
Gone away peerie faeries.
Sleep safe, my baby.
Gone away peerie faeries,
Gone away night stealers,
Sleep safe, my baby.