Kist O' Dreams

Kist o Dreams provides a resource for anyone interested in lullabies from Scottish tradition. If you are looking for the words to a half-remembered snippet of song from your youth, you may find it on this website. If you are interested in hearing a selection of lullabies, you can listen to the CD. Scotland has a rich heritage of song, and lullabies are an integral part of it. Kist o Dreams presents a selection of 14 songs in Scots, Gaelic, Shetland dialect and English, spanning hundreds of years of Scotland's heritage. "Kist" is a Scots word meaning chest, anything from a wooden box for food storage to the special store of personal treasures and valuables.