Hush and Baloo, Babie

DESCRIPTION: "Hush and baloo, babie, Hush and baloo; A' the lave's in their beds -- I'm hushin' you"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1870 (Chambers)
KEYWORDS: lullaby baby
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig/Duncan8 1548, "Hush-a-Baloo"; Greig/Duncan8 1549, "Oh Hush-a-Baloo"; Greig/Duncan8 1550, "Hush and Baloo, Babie" (3 short texts, 2 tunes)
ADDITIONAL: Robert Chambers, The Popular Rhymes of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1870 ("Digitized by Google")), p. 13, ("Hush and baloo, babie")
Roud #13514
NOTES [78 words]: "The favourite old Scottish term for a lullaby is the baloo." (source: Ewan McVicar, Doh Ray Me, When Ah Wis Wee (Edinburgh, 2007), p. 9)
The current description is all of the Chambers text, which is very close to Greig/Duncan 1550. Roud lumps Greig/Duncan8 1548, 1549 and 1550 together. What text there is is very close and the most "complete" text is the one quoted in the description. There seems little point, just considering the texts, in separating them. - BS
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File: GrD1548

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