| Tá mé mo shuí ó d`éirigh`n ghealach aréir
| I've been sitting since the moon rose last night
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| Ag cur tein-e síos-go buan is á fadó go géar
| Putting fire-e down-permanently and long ago sharply
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| Tá bunadh a` tí `na luí is tá mise liom féin
| The origins of the house lie and I am alone
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| Tá na coiligh ag glaoch `san saol `na gcodladh ach mé
| The cocks are crowing `in the world`s asleep but me
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| `Sheacht mh`anam déag do bhéal do mhala is do ghrua
| Seventeen souls for the mouth of your eyebrows and cheeks
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| Do shúil ghorm ghlé-gheal fár thréig mé sionnach na lúb
| Your bright blue eyes made me abandon the fox of the loop
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| Le cumha do dhiaidh ní léir dom an bealach a shiúil
| With nostalgia behind you I do not see the way to walk
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| Is a charaid mo chléibh tá na sléibhte `dul idir mé`s tú
| My dear friend the mountains are `going between me`s you
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| Deiridh lucht léinn gur claoite an galar an grá
| Scholars conclude that love is plagued by disease
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| Char admhaigh mé é is é `ndiaidh mo chroí istigh a chrá
| I didn't admit it, it `s tormenting my inner heart
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| Aicid ró-ghéar, faraor nár sheachain mé í
| Acute disease, alas, I did not avoid it
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| Is go gcuireann sí arraing is céad go géar trí cheart-lár mo chroí
| It's that she sends a hundred arrows sharply through the very center of my heart
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| Casadh bean-tsí dom thíos ag Lios Bhéal an átha
| A housewife meets me downstairs at Lis Ballina
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| D`fhiafraigh mé di an scaoilfeadh glas ar bith grá
| I asked her if any lock would release love
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| Is é dúirt sí gos íseal i mbriathra soineannta sáimh
| She said a low voice in soft blunt words
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| 'An grá a théid fán chroí ní scaoiltear as é go bráth'
| 'The love that goes to the heart is never released'
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| I am sitting up since the moon arose last night
| I am sitting up since the moon arose last night
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| Putting down a fire again and again and keeping it lit
| Putting down a fire again and again and keeping it lit.
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| The family is in bed and here am I by myself
| The family is in bed and here am I by myself
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| The cocks are crowing and the country is asleep but me
| The cocks are crowing and the country is asleep but me
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| I love your mouth, your eyebrows and your cheeks
| I love your mouth, your eyebrows and your cheeks
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| Your bright blue eyes for whose sake I stopped hunting the wily fox
| Your bright blue eyes for whose sake I stopped hunting the wily fox
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| In longing for you I cannot see to walk the road
| In longing for you I cannot see to walk the road
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| Friend of my bosom, the mountains lie between me and you
| Friend of my bosom, the mountains lie between me and you
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| Learned men say that love is a fatal sickness
| Learned men say that love is a fatal sickness
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| I never admitted it until now that my heart is broken:
| I never admitted it until now that my heart is broken:
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| It’s a very painful illness, alas, I have not avoided it
| It’s a very painful illness, alas, I have not avoided it
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| And it sends a hundred arrows through the core of my heart
| And it sends a hundred arrows through the core of my heart
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| I met a fairy woman at the Rath of Beal an Atha
| I met a fairy woman at the Rath of Beal an Atha
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| I asked her would any key unlock the love in my heart
| I asked her would any key unlock the love in my heart
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| And she said in soft simple language
| And she said in soft simple language
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| 'When love enters the heart it will never be driven from it' | 'When love enters the heart it will never be driven from it' |