The Gartan Mother's Lullaby

The Gartan Mother's Lullaby - Luke Kelly

Sleep o babe for the red bee hums the silent twilight's

Fall

Aoibheall from the grey rock comes to wrap the world in

Thrall

A leanbhan o my child my joy my own my heart's

Desire

The crickets sing you lullaby beside the dying fire

Dusk is drawn and the green man's horn is wreathed in

Rings of fog

Siabhra sails his boat till morn upon the starry bog

A leanbhan o the paly moon has ringed her cusp in dew

And weeps to hear the sad sweet tune I sing o love to

You