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