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Chorus (after each verse): |
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Dúlamán na binne buí |
Seaweed of the yellow cliff |
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Dúlamán Gaelach |
Irish seaweed |
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Dúlamán na binne buí |
Seaweed of the yellow cliff |
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Dúlamán Gaelach |
Irish seaweed |
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A'níon mhín ó |
Oh gentle daughter |
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Sin anall na fir shúirí |
Here come the wooing men |
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A mháithair mhín ó |
Oh gentle mother |
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Cuir na roithléan go dtí mé |
Put the wheels in motion for me |
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Tá ceann buí óir |
There is a yellow-gold head |
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Ar an dúlamán gaelach |
On the Irish seaweed |
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Tá dhá chluais mhaol |
There are two blunt ears |
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Ar an dúlamán gaelach |
On the Irish seaweed |
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Rachaimid 'un an Iúr |
We'll go to Newry |
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Leis an dúlamán gaelach |
With the Irish seaweed |
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Ceannóimid bróga daora |
I would buy expensive shoes |
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Ar an dúlamán gaelach |
Said the Irish seaweed |
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Bróga breaca dubha |
The Irish seaweed has |
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Ar an dúlamán gaelach |
Beautiful black shoes |
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Tá bearéad agus triús |
The Irish seaweed has |
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Ar an dúlamán gaelach |
A beret and trousers |
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Ó chuir mé scéala chuici |
I spent time telling her the story |
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Go gceannóinn cíor dí |
That I would buy a comb for her |
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'Sé an scéal a chuir sí chugam |
The story she told back to me |
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Go raibh a ceann cíortha |
That she is well-groomed |
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Caidé thug tú 'na tíre? |
"What did you bring from the land?" |
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Arsa an dúlamán gaelach |
Says the Irish seaweed |
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Ag súirí le do níon |
"Courting with your daughter" |
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Arsa an dúlamán maorach |
Says the stately seaweed |
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Chan fhaigheann tú mo 'níon |
"You're not taking my daughter" |
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Arsa an dúlamán gaelach |
Says the Irish seaweed |
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Bheul, fuadóidh mé liom í |
"Well, I'd take her with me" |
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Arsa an dúlamán maorach |
Says the stately seaweed |
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Dúlamán na binne buí |
Seaweed of the yellow cliff |
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Dúlamán a' tsleibhe |
Seaweed of the mountain |
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Dúlamán na farraige |
Seaweed from the sea |
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Is dúlamán a' deididh |
Seaweed __ |
