Welcome to Bordertown by Holly Black

Author:Holly Black [Black, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89745-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

NIGHT SONG FOR A HALFIE

BY JANE YOLEN

Translator’s note: This night song is clearly modeled after some of the human lullabies that threaten rather than console howling children. We know it to be sung by an elfin mother because of the chorus, which is made up of elfin nonsense words common in other songs. How the singer and her partner hooked up we cannot know from the words, but her reference to jewels may be one of two things: either she is a fairy princess wooed by a human who ran off with the family’s fortune, or the jewels are a false glamour and must be sold before dawn comes to turn them back into pebbles or acorns or a handful of sand.

—Durocher, L., Songs of the Borderlands New York: Random & Rowling

Hushabye baby, my sweetling, my dear,

I’ll sing you a song in your half-elfin ear.

I’ll rock you and knock you and give you a tear.

Kris-nah-no-hany-ne-moreg.

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