Lowland Scots Lullaby
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Lowland Scots Lullaby Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by the fishing villages of Lowland and northeast Scotland, home to the traditional bothy ballad singing style. Bothy ballads take their name from the bothy, the simple shared bunkhouse where unmarried farm laborers once lived and worked together, and the songs themselves, sung unaccompanied, often turned the hardships and humor of farm life — long hours, bad food, demanding bosses — into something worth singing about. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords.
Lyrics & chords
An original arrangement, with guitar & piano chords above each line.
Verse
What the words mean
Chords — guitar & piano
What “Lowland Scots Lullaby” Means
“Mither” means mother in Scots, a Germanic language distinct from Scottish Gaelic, long spoken in the fishing villages and farming communities of Lowland and northeast Scotland, home to the traditional bothy ballad singing style. This original lullaby draws on those fishing-village and ballad images of Lowland Scots life, with “mither” used as a warm address rather than a literal translation.
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- An original lullaby by Relax In No Time, inspired by the musical traditions of its region. The words, melody, arrangement and recording are ours.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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