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Má bhíonn tú liom |
If you're with me |
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Bí liom os comhair lán an tí |
Be with me in front of all the people in the house |
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Má bhíonn tú liom |
If you're with me |
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Bí liom go ló geal is oíche |
Be with me all day and all night |
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Má bhíonn tú liom |
If you're with me |
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Bí liom gach orlach de do chroí |
Be with me truly in your heart |
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'Sé mo léan le fonn |
It is my great sadness |
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Nach liom Dé Domhnaigh thú mar mhnaoi |
That you aren't mine on Sunday as my wife |
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Dhá mbéadh spré ag an gcat |
If the cat had a dowry |
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Nach deas mar a phógfaí a bhéal |
How nicely his mouth would be kissed |
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Mura mbeadh nach fada |
And if he didn't, it's a long way |
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Ó bhaile a sheolfaí é |
From home he would be driven |
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Tá iníon na caillí gioblaí |
The twisted, wretched witch's daughter |
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Casta pósta ó aréir |
Is married since last night |
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'S tá mo chailín ag baile |
And my girl's at home |
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'S gan duine aici a phógfadh a béal |
With no one to kiss her mouth |
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'S cén cat mara a chas |
And what misfortune that |
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In san áit seo mé? |
Directed me to this place? |
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Nach iomaí cailín |
There is many a girl in the village |
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A d'fhága mé i mo dhiaidh |
That I left behind |
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Mar gheall ar throid 's ar bhruíon |
Because of a fight and a quarrel |
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'S ar rud éicint nárbh fhíor |
And something that wasn't even true |
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Muise, óinseach caillí |
Musha, a silly hag |
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'S iníon aici a bhí gan chiall |
And her daughter that had no sense |
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'S chuirfinn, threabhfainn |
I would plow and plant |
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'S chraithfinn an síol go domhain sa gcré |
The seed deep in the soil |
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'S sheolfainn na beithígh sna páirceanna |
And I would drive the cows to the fields |
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'S airde a fhásann féar |
Where the tallest grass grows |
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Chuirfinn crú ar an each ba dheise |
I would shoe a horse that was |
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'S ba lúfaire a shiúil riamh féar |
The nicest and fastest ever |
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Ach d'éalódh bean le fear |
And a woman would elope with a man |
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Nach ndéanfadh é sin féin |
Who wouldn't even do that |
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