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Thread #13559   Message #3799026
Posted By: Felipa
04-Jul-16 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: An buachaillin ban
Subject: Lyrics added: An Buachaillin Bán
Áine's song site at geocities is no longer functioning (links given in 1999) but there are other online postings of Irish AN BUCHAILLÍN BÁN lyrics on Celticlyricscorner as recorded by Karan Casey:

Ta mo chroí-se go tláth lag         
'S i lár mo chuid saothair         
Tagann lán tocht im chléibhse         
Cé nár mhéin liom é rá         
Tá an díbirt i ndán dom         
Ó bháin bheannaibh Éireann         
Is fánach mo shaolsa         
'S is déarach mo chás         
        
Is cuimhin liom an tráth         
Úd a ghrá ghil na n-ae istigh         
Thugas grá searc is géilleadh         
Dod chaomh roisc thar chách         
A Rí ghil na n-árann         
Dob fhearr liom go n-éagfainn         
I láthair mo ghaolta         
Is mo bhuachaillín bán         
        
Tá críoch Inis Failbhe         
Go lán fad' i ndaor bhroid         
Go cráite 's go céasta         
I ngéibhinn na namhad         
Nó an fíor nach foláir duit         
A oileáinín bhig mhaorga         
Na naomh is na mbard         
                
Ó guímse go hard         
Ar an Ard Athair Naofa         
Chun ár agus léir-scrios         
Do dhéanamh ar Sheán         
Do dhíbir na táinte         
Thar sáile 'na gcéandta         
'S chuir fán orm féinig         
Óm' bhuachaillín bán

TRANSLATION

My heart beat faintly
And my efforts are weakened
A grief too deep for words
Fills my breast
For I am to be banished
From the fair hills of Erin
Aimless my life then
And tragic my fate
        
I recall, my soul's delight
In days gone by
My love surrendered
To your bewitching gaze
Merciful God
I would far rather perish
Here with my own folk
And my fair-haired boy
        
The fair land of Erin
Lies in bondage so brutal
The sad, tormented
Prisioner of her foes
Is it her fate then
To be forever weeping
That proud little isle
Of the saint and the bard?
        
I should this my prayer
To great God our Father
Let death and destruction
Be the fate of John
Who banished so many
Across the great water
And parted forever
My fair lad and me

(I think the translation well done.)