Now, alison, I'm sure that helps you, being Irish and all, but this poor Yank can't make any connection between that word salad on the screen and what I hear on the record. To me, the first line of the chorus sounds something like "Erin a born a born," and I can't for the life of me figure out how "'S a gheala nam botham nam botham" comes out sounding like that. Then there's the line, I guess it's in verse 3, that sounds to me like (cover your ears, kids) "A tushy dap na shah". And you tell me that's how you pronounce "Cha d'thuirt an dadan a' seo"? Get real! Now, I know all about the craziness of English pronunciation as compared to phonetic languages like Spanish and Italian and Hebrew. But English is a walk in the park compared to this stuff!

Aighleothiram*,
Mark
*that's how you write "Aloha" in Gaelic