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O cùm 'ur gealladh |
Keep your promise |
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'S na bi 'g ar mealladh |
And don't deceive us |
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Tha cuid a chì, 's a strì ri maireann |
There are some who see, who will forever strive |
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Cò aig bhiodh dùil |
Who would expect |
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Gum biodh ar gaol |
That our love |
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An urra tùir, a dha neo thrì |
Would be in the hands of two or three |
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'S dé chuir cèarr sibh |
And what put you wrong |
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Nach robh na b'fhearr leibh |
That you preferred |
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Na dòighean dhaoine, faoineas baile |
Inane urban ways than the ways of your own people |
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Neo'n d'thàinig sgleò |
Or did the eye of your world |
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Air sùil 'ur saoghail |
Become so blurred |
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Nach aithnich, dualchas falamh |
That you cannot recognize an empty culture |
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'Ne Port na h-Eala |
Is it the swan song |
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Air tràigh gun sealladh |
On the tidal shore without sight |
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Air muir neo tìr, a tha fainear dhuinn? |
Of sea or land that's ahead of us? |
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Nach mair ri lìnn |
Which will not last an era |
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A tha cho tìnn |
That is so sick |
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'S a thruailleas àilleachdainn gun bheum |
And pollutes innocent beauty |
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'S a chuireas cùl ris |
And turns its back on |
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Na daoine a chum ris |
The people that kept to |
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Gach gné is nòs, le dòchas fallain |
The roots of the tradition with optimism |
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Caith dhiot do phròis |
Discard your pride |
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'S cuimhnich d'òig |
And remember your youth |
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'S a chainnt thug beòth's dha d'anam |
And the language which gave life to your soul |
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Chan eil mo bhalaich |
My boys are not |
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Ag cluich air cladach |
Playing on the shore |
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Neo measg an t-sluaigh, th 'air thuar 's air tarraing |
Or among the people that are all but gone |
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Ach gheibh mi sìth |
But I will have peace |
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Ma gheibh 'ad brìgh |
If they learn the essence |
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Air beath' ar sinnsirean o thràth |
Of the life of our forebears from early times |
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Na cleith do chànan |
Do not hide your language |
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Neo h-uile mànran |
And the tenderness |
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A chaidh chuir sìos le dìth an eòlas |
Derided by others in ignorance |
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Tha Uamh an Oir |
The cave of gold |
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Mar chòir nan Gàidheal |
Is every Gael's due |
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Nach d'fhuair a leòr dha toradh |
Who have yet to get their fill of its riches |
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O cùm 'ur gealladh |
Keep your promise |
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'S na bi 'g ar mealladh |
And don't deceive us |
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Tha cuid a chì, 's a strì ri maireann |
There are some who see, who will forever strive |
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Cò aig bhiodh dùil |
Who would expect |
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Gum biodh ar gaol |
That our love |
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An urra tùir, a dha neo thrì |
Would be in the hands of two or three |
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'S dé chuir cèarr sibh |
And what put you wrong |
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Nach robh na b'fhearr leibh |
That you preferred |
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Na dòighean dhaoine, faoineas baile |
Inane urban ways than the ways of your own people |
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Neo'n d'thàinig sgleò |
Or did the eye of your world |
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Air sùil 'ur saoghail |
Become so blurred |
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Nach aithnich, dualchas falamh |
That you cannot recognize an empty culture |
