thanks, Fiolar. I do have the music with the Gaelic written in the last line (and am aware of the correct way it should be) and then an English phonetic spelling under it- that's where they ran everything together and used th. I was thinking I had heard it like that somewhere, but it's that I saw it written in a songbook. I've misplaced it - a songbook of Irish "classics" - all copyright Warner Brothers. I think I mentioned it in the previous old thread we had about this song.