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Thread #16786   Message #158483
Posted By: peg
05-Jan-00 - 02:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cape Breton Song / Oran an Teine
Subject: Cape Breton Song
This song appears on Capercaille's album Delirium (or maybe it is Get Out). Anyway there are only two verses sung; and no lyrics printed, just an explanation that says it has mutated in the course of oral transmission... Ther lyrics do appear in Songs Remembered in Exile, but I cannot afford this book! Anyone have a copy? or other source for the Scots Gaelic lyrics to this song? It is basically a lament about coming to America and missing Nova Scotia. I have been able to learn to sing it from listening and my own rudimentary knowledge of the language...but want to be sure I am getting the words right. Also would like some more verses. Any help is greatly appreciated! peg