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Un Canadien Errant
Arranged by Eleanor Daley
Series Editor: Elaine Quilichini Voicing: SSA Instrumentation: piano Catalog number: AMP 0429 Price: $2.00 Ever fearful that their children would come to some harm from the ‘Fae’ or fairies, Scottish
mothers would hang daisy chains around their children's necks or place iron pins in their
clothing. Both were said to ward off the ‘fae.’ This Scottish chant would have been sung
to 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 same
words exists: |
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