Smile In Your Sleep / Hush - Fascination Music, Bianca-Kinane Ewart, Jim Mclean

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A Song about the savagery and mass deportations of what is now called the Highland Clearances during the 18/19th century when whole tribal communities were destroyed, and the people moved by force .
It was deduced by those landowners on whose lands the clans lived and worked, that sheep were exponentially more financially productive than people. The wool trade had begun to boom and there was literally more value in sheep than people.
Some highlander clans and families had lived in the same cottages for 500 years and then, just like that, they were gone. People were literally turned out of their cottages into the surrounding countryside. Some of those turned out had literally nowhere else to go; many were old and infirm and so starved or froze to death, left to the mercy of the elements.
It is not known exactly how many highlanders emigrated, voluntarily or otherwise, but estimates put it at about 70,000. Whatever the exact figure, it was enough to change the character and culture of the Scottish Highlands forever.
This clearing of the population is a main contributor to the massive world-wide Scottish diaspora and why so many Americans and Canadians can trace their ancestry to the proud, ancient clans of Scotland.
Excerpts from The Highland Clearances by Terry Stewart
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Vocals - Bianca-Kinane Ewart
Arrangement - Tom Wilson
Music/Production - Donald Dawson
Lyrics - Jim McLean
The melody was written by John Cameron from Ballachuilish, Scotland in 1856 " Chi mi na Morbhaeanna " The Mist Covered Mountains of home