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Ar chonnlaigh ghlais an fhoghmhair |
On the green stubble-fields of autumn |
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A stóirín gur dhearc mé uaim |
I saw you, my sweetheart |
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Ba deas do chos i mbróig |
Nice were your feet in shoes |
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'Sba ró-dheas do leagan siubhail |
And wonderful your nimble gait |
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Do ghruaidh ar dhath na rósaí |
Your hair the color of roses |
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'Sdo chúirníní bhí fighte dlúith |
And your ringlets tightly plaited |
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Monuar gan sinn 'ár bpósadh |
Alas that we're not married |
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Nó'r bórd luinge 'triall 'un siubhail |
Or on board ship sailing away |
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Tá buachaillí na h-áite seo |
The boys around here are |
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A' gartha 'gus ag éirghe teann |
Complaining and getting fired up |
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Is lucht na gcochán árd |
And the ones with the high-piled hair |
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A' deánamh fáruis do mo chailín donn |
Are making homes for my brown-haired girl |
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Dá ngluaiseadh Rí na Spáinne |
If the King of Spain would |
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Thar sáile 's a shlóighte cruinn |
Go abroad with his assembled men |
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Bhrúighfinn féar is fásach |
I would trample pasture and wilderness |
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'S bhéinn ar láimh le mo chailín donn |
And I would be with my brown-haired girl |
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Ceannacht buaibh ar aontaigh' |
If only my brown-haired girl and I |
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Dá mbínn agus mo chailín donn |
Were buying cows at the fair |
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Gluais is tar a chéad-searc |
Go and come first love |
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Nó go dtéidh muid thar Ghaoth-Bearra 'nonn |
Until we go over to Gaoth-Bearra |
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Go sgartar ó n-a chéile |
Even if the tops of the branches were parted |
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Bárr na gcraobh 's an eala ón tuinn |
And the swan were separated from the waves |
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Ní sgarfar sin ó chéile |
That would not separate us |
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'S níl ach baois díbh á chur 'n mur gcionn |
And those who go against us are foolish |
