The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69073   Message #3795986
Posted By: keberoxu
15-Jun-16 - 07:06 PM
Thread Name: Maire Ni Scolai (1909 - 1985) traditional singer
Subject: RE: Maire Ni Scolai (1909 - 1985) traditional singer
"An Clár Bog Déil" concludes the unaccompanied singing on Side One of the Gael Linn vinyl collection. Two verses are sung. True to form, the opening verse is sung first, and then the artist proceeds to a verse further down in the lineup of stanzas. Let me see if I can come up with SOMEBODY ELSE'S English translations for the two verses on this recording.

I would marry you without cows, without money, without a portion of dowry,

(with the will of your people, if you should wish it so)

It is my melancholy sickness that I and you are not, love of my bosom,
In Cashel in Munster and with no bed under us but a bog-deal board.
(from Gregory A Schirmer, "Out Of What Began")

I have given you the devotion of my heart in secret love
And my wish is for fate to permit that one day we will be
Made one by the clergy, and spancelled in love by a ring
And if any man claimed you, my love, I would die of the pain
(from Seán McMahon, "Taisce Duan")