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Thread #6383   Message #36944
Posted By: Bruce O.
03-Sep-98 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: amra/in i ngaeigle
Subject: RE: amra/in i ngaeigle
[I found I had made a xerox copy, but this doesn't look like the same song. JIFSS #19, p. 8, 1922]

An Rogaire Dubh.

Cad e/ an fa/th dhuit, a stro/in-se, na/ geo/bhfa/ le No/ra,
Caili/n modhmhail mu/in-te gan e/islin ar bith,
Go bhfuil fogh-lium is mu/ine uirthi, do/ithin mhic phrionn- sa,
Thug a hathair 's a ma/thair i dtu/is a saoghail di.
An te' chi/feadh an annir ar maidin no/ ar no/in,
Guna 'gus clo/c uir-thi, caidhp agus cnot,
Stocai ghealgjreant' uirthi, bro/g chaol is bu/cla,
'S gan leithei/d mo chu/ilfhinn ar Aonach a' Phuic.

[four lines forgotten here]
Anois o/ tha/raoi it' lo/ma 's gan hata ort na' bro/ga,
'S doo mha/lai/ it' dho/id agat ag dui o/ thig go tig.
Ni mar ain sin ta/ Ho/ra, acht se' each fe/ na co/iste,
'S ni/ fhe/achfadh as ro/d r an Ro/gaire Dubh.

[that's all that's given]