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Mo chridhe trom is duilich leam |
My heart is heavy |
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Gur muladach a tha mi |
My sadness is hard to bear |
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Mo chridhe briste brùit |
Mu heart, bruised and broken |
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Ach air mo shùil chan aithnich cach sin |
Though none can see it in my eye |
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Mo chridhe trom is duilich leam |
My heavy heart is hard to bear |
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Nuair chunnaic mis' an toiseach thu |
When first I saw you |
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'Nad shuidh' air stoc a' bhàta |
Sitting on the tiller of the boat |
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Se còig bliadhn' deug a dh' aois bha mi |
I was just fifteen then |
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A ghaoil nuair thug mi gràdh dhut |
When I gave you my love |
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Mo chridhe trom is duilich leam |
My heavy heart is hard to bear |
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Cuimhnich air do bhòidean rium |
Remember your vows to me |
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An Steòrnabhagh a bha sinn |
That time in Stornoway |
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'S ann air taobh muigh an Royal |
It was outside the Royal |
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Chug thu bòid dhomh nach do phàigh thu |
You made a vow that you failed to keep |
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Mo chridhe trom is duilich leam |
My heavy heart is hard to bear |
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Chuimhnich air do bhriathran rium |
Remember your words to me |
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Di-Caidain sios am Bràighe |
That Wednesday on the Brae |
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Nach fhaiceadh Dia na daoine |
You said that neither god nor man |
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Bean mo chaochlaidh air do ghàirdean |
Would ever see another on your arm |
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Mo chridhe trom is duilich leam |
My heavy heart is hard to bear |
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Ma 'se 's gun tug thu fuath dhomh |
If you have turned from me |
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'S a luaidh ma rinn thu m'fhàgail |
And, my precious, if you have abandoned me |
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Chan fhad gun dèan an sluagh |
Soon the people will lay me down |
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Anns a' chiste fhuair mo chàradh |
In my cold coffin |
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Mo chridhe trom is duilich leam |
My heavy heart is hard to bear |
