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Thread #64391   Message #1052686
Posted By: Wolfgang
12-Nov-03 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Scots Song 'rovin', rovin' garioch go'
Subject: RE: Scots Song 'rovin', rovin' garioch go'
On this site
a literal translation of the Gaelic can be found.

Hò-bhan, hò-bhan, Goiridh òg O,                                                             Alas, alas, young Geoffrey O,
Goiridh òg O, Goiridh òg O;                                                             Young Geoffrey O, young Geoffrey O;
Hò-bhan, hò-bhan, Goiridh òg O,                                                             Alas, alas, young Geoffrey O,
Gu'n d'fhalbh mo ghaol 's gu'n d'fhàg e mi.                                                             That my love has gone away and that he has left me.

Wolfgang (who better should not bet based upon a Gaelic vocabulary to be counted with the fingers of a single hand)