The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12931   Message #4069368
Posted By: Felipa
23-Aug-20 - 04:41 PM
Thread Name: Help: Fairy Love Song
Subject: RE: Fairy Love Song, Buain a Rainich, Tha Mi Sgith
Back in 2001, Kim wrote that s/he couldn't cite a reference for Jean Redpath. She recorded Tha Mi Sgíth aka Fairy Love Song on the 1964 album "Laddie Lie Near Me". It's long since I heard the song in English. There are a few translations cited in this thread. Whose translation did Jean Redpath sing?

I suggest it would be nice for singers to learn the chorus in Gaelic and add that when they sing The Fairy Love Song. There are plenty of recordings you can listen to online to aid with pronunciation.
Tha mi sgith, ’s mi leam fhìn
Buain na rainich, buain na rainich
Tha mi sgith, ’s mi leam fhìn
Buain na rainich, daonnan.