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Chorus (after each verse): |
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O ba ba mo leanabh |
Oh hush-a-bye, my little baby |
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Ba mo leanabh, ba |
Hush, my little baby, hush |
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O ba ba mo leanabh |
Oh hush-a-bye, my little baby |
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Nì mo leanabhs' an ba ba |
My own little baby will go to sleep |
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Ged tha mi gun chaoraich agam |
Though I am without a flock of sheep |
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'S caoraich uil' aig càch |
And the others all have sheep |
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Ged tha mi gun chaoraich agam |
Though I am without a flock of sheep |
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Dèan a leanabhs' an ba ba |
You, little baby, can go to sleep |
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Eudail mhòir a shluaigh an dòmhain |
Darling, of the people of the great world |
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Dhòirt iad d'fhuil an dé |
They spilt your blood yesterday |
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'S chuir iad do cheann air stob daraich |
They put your head on an oaken post |
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Tacan beag bho do chré |
A little way from your corpse |
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Dhìrich mi bheinn mhòr gun anal |
I breathlessly climbed the great mountain |
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Dhìrich agus thearn |
I climbed and I descended |
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Chuirinn falt mo chinn fo d' chasan |
I would put the hair of my head under your feet |
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Agus craicionn mo dhà làimh |
And the skin of my two hands |
