Lyr Add: Hoireann O

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hoireann O
From: RunrigFan
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 06:00 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os2d8hZD5VU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x5LB6qeVMs


Different song it seems

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hoireann O
From: Felipa
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 05:48 PM

Thainin (first post) and Thaining (second post) should be "Thàinig" -past tense of the verb to come, "Thàinig mi," I came.

(Capercaillie is the spelling of the band's name, and of the bird; diffent is different and coection is collection)

Usually if you get the same vocables in the chorus, the song/s will have the same tune. Some readers may need to be told that Mouth Music is the name of an album featuring Talitha Mackenzie; the Hoireann O song doesn't belong to the Port à Beul (mouth music sung for dancing) category. I would guess it is a song for waulking the tweed, but it has been given a modern treatment in Talitha Mackenzie's and Capercaillie's renditions.

Celtic Lyrics corner gives a translation of the Capercaillie lyrics
http://www.celticlyricscorner.net/capercaillie/hoireann.htm

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hoireann O
From: RunrigFan
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 09:08 AM

Traditional

Recordings

Capercailli - Nadurra - 2000

Is Mouth Music and Talitha MacKenzie the same song or a diffent song altogether

From Harris Tweed coection

Full lyrics

1
'S moch an diugh a rinn mi eirigh

(after each verse)
Hoireann o hi ri u ho Hoireann o hi ri u ho
Hu o ai hi o ho eile Hu o ai hi o ho eile
Hoireann o hi ri u ho Hoireann o hi ri u ho

Ghabh mi mach ri gleann na geigeadh

Thaining mi steach gleann na spreidheadh

Phuair mi ghruagach dhonn gun eirigh

Lub mi 'na mo bhreacan fhein i

'S thug mi boid nach b'eagal beud dhi

Gun tugainn dha mathair fhein i

Gos tugainn coir o'n chleir oirr'

Oidhche dhomh 's mi tuath air Eirinn

Cruinn 'gan lubadh, siuil 'gan reubadh

'S mise ghaoil a bha 'nam eiginn

Ach ma thilleas mis' as Eirinn

'S tusa ghaoil a gheibh am preusant

Gun dh' an t-sioda 's cleoc a reir sein

'S fainne 'n oir 's a faic thu t'eugaisg

'S ged nach cunnt mi moran spreidheadh

Cha bhi uallach loin neo eis oirinn

Bheirinn fiadh o aird an t-sleibhe

Bheirinn breac o'n linnidh Shleitich

Cha bi farmad ort ri t'eile

Subject: Lyr Add: Hoireann O
From: RunrigFan
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 08:57 AM

1
'S moch an diugh a rinn mi eirigh

(after each verse)
Hoireann o hi ri u ho Hoireann o hi ri u ho
Hu o ai hi o ho eile Hu o ai hi o ho eile
Hoireann o hi ri u ho Hoireann o hi ri u ho

Ghabh mi mach ri gleann na geigeadh

Thainin mi steach gleann na spreidheadh

Fhuair mi ghruagach dhonn gun eirigh

Lub mi 'na mo bhreacan fhein i

'S thug mi boid nach b'eagal beud dhi

Gun tugainn dha mathair fhein i

'S mise ghaoil a bha 'nam eiginn

Ach ma thilleas mis' as Eirinn

'S tusa ghaoil a gheibh am preusant