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Thread #29051   Message #366345
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
31-Dec-00 - 03:18 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: gaelic songs
Subject: Lyr Add: UAMH AN OIR
Two versions of Bogie's Bonny Belle may be found here (I used the "Digitrad and Forum Search" box on the main Forum page to locate them:

Bogie's Bonny Belle  -the version recorded by Ian Manuel (The Frosty Ploughshare, Topic Records 12TS220, 1972)

Bogie's Bonny Belle  -as recorded by Archie Fisher.

Uamh An Oir:  The text of a song by this title, with English translation, may be found in an earlier thread, here:  Uamh an Oir (Cave of Gold)  -it's not the one recorded by Margaret Stewart and Allan MacDonald (on their CD Fhuair Mi Pog, Greentrax CDTRAX 132, 1998), though.  Theirs' goes as follows:

UAMH AN OIR (CAVE OF GOLD)

Chuile té 's a còt' am bogadh, toir' nan gogag as an tràigh.

Seisd (Chorus):

Mas tig mise, mag tis mise, mag tis mis' à Uamh an Oir.

Bidh na laoigh bheag nan crodh féille, mas tig mis' à Uamh an Oir.

Bidh chlann bheaga nam fir thaighe, mas tig mis' à Uamh an Oir.

Chuile té 's a còt' am bogadh, toir' nan gogag as an tràigh.

Toir' nan gobag, toir nan gobag, toir' nan gobag as an tràigh.

Each line is sung twice.  The CD insert gives the Gaelic text above, but does not provide a translation into English, though a set of translations of the songs on the record is available from:

Greentrax Recordings Ltd.,
Cockenzie Business Centre
Edinburgh Road
Cockenzie
East Lothian
EH32 0HL

The School of Scottish Studies' periodical Tocher has published the first version mentioned above, which came from William Matheson.  It may be seen, together with a translation into English, staff-notation and a sound recording, at their website:  Uamh an Òir (The Cave of Gold)

Malcolm