The Gartan Mothers Lullaby - Orla Fallon

Sleep, oh babe, for the red bee hums

The silent twilight’s fall

Aoibheall from the gray rock comes

To wrap the world in thrall

A leanbhín ó, my child, my joy

My love and heart’s desire

The crickets sing you lullaby

Beside the dying fire

Dusk is drawn and the Green Man’s thorn

Is wreathed in rings of fog

Siabhra sails his boat 'til morn

Upon the starry bog

A leanbhín ó, the paly moon

Hath brimmed her cusp in dew

And weeps to hear the sad sleep-tune

I sing, my love, to you

Sleep, oh babe, for the red bee hums

The silent twilight’s fall

Aoibheall from the gray rock comes

To wrap the world in thrall

A leanbhín ó, my child, my joy

My love and heart’s desire

The crickets sing you lullaby

Beside the dying fire