Dear Angun,

Below are the lyrics in Irish, and an English translation, to the Selke Song (as it's called on the CD insert) from the soundtrack to The Secret Of Roan Inish. The music is listed as 'traditional' (it's the same tune as An Mhaighdean Mhara) and the words are credited to Mason Darling. I've typed them as they appear on the CD insert, except for putting in the fadas where they belonged and correcting some very obvious spelling mistakes. The rest is how it appears on the insert.

I'd like to know the opinions of the other commentators on this thread; however, I personally think Daring's Irish lyrics are a pale imitation of the traditional lyrics (and just plain bad poetry). But, I'm providing them to you for your information and comparison.

Le meas, Áine

Selke Song
(Tune-Trad./Words-Mason Darling)

Is cosúil gura bheath tú
Nó do rugadh tú an gcrann
Tá an sneachta go freasach
Fá a bhíalainn ann
Do shiúil bí d'eitil,
Is do bhéalain sámh,
Suid thugaibh m'Éire chinnle
Is é an Éire naomh

Máthairín mhilis
A dúirt Máire bhán
Ar bharr na dtoinntí
Is a bhruach na trá
Máthair an bharr
Mo mháthair in ard
Suid thugaibh m'Éire chinnle
Is é an Éire naomh

Táimse tuirseach
Agus beidh go néal
Mo bhá ar a bhruinne
Is mo phadraic bán
Ar bharr na dtoinntí
Is a bhruach na trá
Suid thugaibh m'Éire chinnle
Is é an Éire naomh
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Maybe you were born
Or you came from the earth
The snow is glistening
There is beauty there
Your eyes are your vision
But your lips are silent
I gave to them Ireland
Our holy saintly land

Sweet Mother
Our heavenly one
On the crest of the waves
At the ebb of the tide
Mother most high
Mother in the highest
I gave to them Ireland
Our holy saintly land

I am weary now
And soon it will be
My scent on the branches
And my strenghth in the bark
On the crest of the waves
At the ebb of the tide
I gave to them Ireland
Our holy saintly land