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Thread #2304   Message #1392794
Posted By: GUEST,JTT
29-Jan-05 - 08:21 PM
Thread Name: Irish Newfoundland lyrics
Subject: RE: Irish Newfoundland lyrics
I think I've asked this before without success, but can anyone tell me where I can get the rest of the words (and a tune) of a song quoted in Alistair MacLeod's story The Tuning of Perfection, from the collection The Lost Salt Gift of Blood.

The words have defaulted back from Gaedhlig to Irish in my mind, but go roughly:

Is ann ar chúl na mbeantann ard
Atá teach chónaithe mo ghrá
Fear a bhfuil a chroí i mbláth

(It is there, at the top of the high mountain is the dwelling-place of my love, a man whose heart is in flower).