Brigmore Lullaby

After sparrows
Three times called
After gull does
Three times fall
Mistress, mouse, and hen
Frog and wren
Once a king dressed in red
Warmed by the flames on feather bed
While all the town starving cried
The Month of Ice
Eat them of frost
Eat them of snow
The monarch decreed
To them below
Up on a spike
They perched his head
Cursed his name
Burned his stead
Hush-a-bye, don’t be afright
Mama will sing through all the night
Many an hour before morning sun
Don’t dream of horror yet to come
After sparrows
Three times called
After gull does
Three times fall
Mistress, mouse, and hen
Frog and wren
Once a king dressed in red
Warmed by the flames on feather bed
While all the town starving cried
The Month of Ice