I am looking for the lyrics to a tune that I believe is called "Dance to your Shadow".

the lyric line I know is something like: "Dance to your shadow and it's good to be livin"

I have heard a version where there is a second song mixed in... with a bunch of "Ho Rows" in the vocal line..

very confused, any info would help me greatly!

All the Best fae

Ho ro haradal, "Hind ye" haradal "Hind ye" han dan.
Ho ro haradal, "Hind ye" haradal "Hind ye" han dan.

Bandó ribinnean a shioda's de ribinnean
Bandó ribinnean á ruidealadh mu'd cheann-sa.
Bandó ribinnean a shioda's de ribinnean
Bandó ribinnean á ruidealadh mu'd cheann-sa.

Dance to your shadow when it's good to be living, lad
Dance to your shadow when there's nothing better near you.
Dance to your shadow when it's fine to be living, lad
Dance to your shadow when there's nothing better near you.

Dance to your shadow when it's hard to be living, lad
Dance to your shadow when there's nothing better near you.
Dance to your shadow when it's sore to be living, lad
Dance to your shadow when there's nothing better near you.

Dance to your shadow and let fate to her fiddle, lad
Dance to your shadow when there's nothing better near you.
Dance to your shadow for it's fine to be living, lad
Dance to your shadow when there's nothing better near you.

The English lyrics were written by Kenneth MacLeod; the Gaelic and melody came from Marion MacLeod of Eigg. ("Ho Ro" etc. is pretty well untranslateable.) Published in "Songs of the Hebrides" volume 3, 1921. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser & Kenneth MacLeod. (Boosey & Hawkes, London). Accents as given in the sheet-music.

Malcolm

I am looking for the title and the complete lyrics for that tune as well

thanks fae

Malcolm

There are tunes in the River Otter
Pools in the river water
Pools in the river and the river calls him.

Published by Boosey & Hawkes, 1921 as "The River Calling"; I haven't seen that edition, so I don't know who wrote the English words. It turns up again in the 1923 edition of "Songs of the Hebrides" (vol. 3) as "The Hazel by the River", with a quite different English text (uncredited, so perhaps by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser). The Gaelic text (of which neither English version is a translation) is as follows:

Theid mi null air an abhuinn
Thig mi nall air an abhuinn
Choimheadair an taillear.

Tha na maoir ga ma shireadh
Tha na saoir ga mo shireadh
Tha na maoir ga mo shireadh
Chagabh mi ach taillear.

Described as "An ancient Skye mouth-tune from Keith MacDonald's Puirt-a-Beul".

Malcolm

Theid mi null air an abhuinn
Thig mi nall air an abhuinn
Choimheadair an taillear.

I'll go across the river
I'll come across the river
To see the tailor
[? I would translate it as 'the tailor is beeing watched', but in context "to see the tailor" is better]

Tha na maoir ga ma shireadh
[The steward is pursuing me] ...

Cha gabh mi ach taillear.
[I'll have none but the tailor]
['Cha gabh' is two words.]