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Ar meisce cha dteím níos mó |
Drunkeness for life I forego |
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Braon leanna go deo ní bhlaisfidh mé |
Strong ale I will taste never more |
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Chiall mé mo cailín beag óg |
I lost my pretty young maid |
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A chuirfeadh im phocái n t-aírgead |
Who would plenish my pockets with riches |
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Chorus (after each verse): |
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Fada liom uaimí uaimí |
I long for her from me, from me |
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Fada liom uaimí o dimigh sí |
I long for her from me since leaving me |
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Fada liom thiós agus thuas í |
I long for her above and below me |
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Mailí na nguach ní chuileannáin |
The curly-haired Molly Nee Chull-in-an |
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Dhéanfaidh mé toigh ar an ard |
I'll build a house on the hill |
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S'beidh ceithre ba bána breác agam |
And four speckled cows I'll own |
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Cha ligim an duine dá gcomhair |
I'll allow no other person near them |
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Ach Mailí gheal bhán ni chuileannáin |
But the lovely fair Molly Nee Chull-in-an |
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Dá mbeinnse í n dochar a bháis |
If I were in the last throes of death |
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Gus daoine a rá nach dtiocfainn as |
And people could see no recovery |
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Cha déanfainn me thiomna go brách |
I'd never dictate my last will |
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Go dtíocfadh Mál bhán ni chuileannáin |
'Til the arrival of fair Molly Nee Chull-in-an |
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Bhí mise lá ara a choill |
I happened one day in the woods |
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Is tharla dom soilse bhradoíge |
And I met a charming young maiden |
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O dheánfadh si mara bhán beo |
She'd make the sea come alive |
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No buachaill beag óg den seanduine |
And a lovely young man of an old fellow |
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(Curfá 2x) |
(Chorus 2x) |
