Thanks for your replies - but every word in the second verse in the Callum Kennedy recording sounds totally different to me both from the phonetic rendition at scotsindependent.org and from for example the Am Baile recording. And the Linda Macleod version sounds different again, (and Robin Hall and Jimmy MacGregor are different from all three although I realise they weren't Gaelic speakers); and none of those four recordings sound much like the phonetic text. For instance none of the them pronounce "gillean" as if it were spelt anything like "geelyan"!