Smuggler’s lullaby

Arranged by Leonora Davies.
Traditional

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This is a gentle ‘story’ song with a beautiful Gaelic chorus. A mother sings a lullaby to her baby, but actually she is giving a sinister warning to her husband – a smuggler – that the ‘excise men’ (the department that collects a fee for goods brought into the country) are looking for him.

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Age
7 to 9 , 9 to 11 , 11 to 13
Song type
Choir , Lullaby
Style
Folk , Traditional - Europe
Subject
History , Music
Scoring
Guitar chords , Piano accompaniment , Unison (optional parts)

Audio Information
The performance track was recorded for Sing Up by Singers from Stagecoach Fleet (Gaia Cazuccio, Lauren Main, Amelia McCabe, Mia Morrish and Emily Pritchard; musical director: Tom Kirkham) to a backing track by Ben Tompsett.

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