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Phósfainn thú gan bó |
I would marry you without a cow |
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Gan puntaí gan dhá phingin spré |
Without pounds, without tuppence dowry |
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Leagfainn fúm thú maidin drúchta |
I would lay you beneath me on a dewy morning |
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Le bánú an lae |
At the dawn of the day |
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Mo ghalar dúnta gan mé agus tú |
It is my complete affliction that you and I |
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A ghrá mo chléibh |
My darling love |
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I gCaiseal Dubh is gan de leaba fúinn |
Aren't in Caiseal Dubh with nothing for a bed |
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Ach an chlár board deal |
But the deal board |
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Bean solasta ní mholfaidh mé |
A bright woman I'll not praise |
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Is ní cháinfidh mé í |
And I'll not find fault with |
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Bean dorcha ní ghlacfaidh mé |
I'll never take a dark woman |
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Go deo mar mhnaoi |
As a wife |
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Iníon bhodaigh ní shantóidh me |
I'll not desire the daughter of somebody important |
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Mar gheall ar mhaoin |
Because of wealth |
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Ach pósfaidh mé mo stórín |
But I'll marry my darling |
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Is í grá mo chroí |
She's the love of my heart |
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O léifinn leabhar Gaeilge |
Oh I would read an Irish book |
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Agus canúint mhaith chrua |
In good, hard language |
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Scríofaidh mé ina dhiaidh sin |
After that, I'll write |
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Le barr mo phinn |
With the tip of my pen |
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Loch Éirne go snámhfainn |
I'd swim Loch Éirne |
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Ar chúl mo chinn |
On my back |
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Is dá dtéadh agam bean a bhréagadh |
And if I could entice a woman |
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Bheadh an báire liom |
I'd have won the day |
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Ná síl cé gurb íseal |
Don't think that I'm not noble |
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Nach uasal mé |
Even though I'm lowly |
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Ná síl gur insan díog adaí |
Don't think that in yonder ditch |
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A fuarthas mé |
I was found |
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Sín síos liom seal míosa |
Lie down beside me for a month or so |
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Agus cuartaígh mé |
And try me out |
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Is gheobhaidh tú scríofa in mo thaobh deas |
And you'll find written in my right side |
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Gur b'uasal mé |
That I'm a playboy |
