I was just in the process of looking for decent words to this tune. Love the tune, hate the words I have seen, about maidens fair etc. Although I do like the verse about love is a fixed star...

One person on an Irish board translated it as herding cows in one of the verses...

From everything I read Eileen precedes Robin...

The two lyrics I think most commonly used and found on you tube etc. are grating and are hardly translations...just new words to an old tune.

Great story that the song was written in 1386 for an Eleanor Cavanaugh..lover came to her wedding, played her this song, which includes lines will you come or stay..something like that..she supposedly got her father et al drunk and eloped with writer of said lyrics. Those are the lyrics I want, true story or not.

Well, I shall start a separate thread so as not to confuse people further.