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Posted By: Felipa
22-Jun-21 - 03:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Cha Bhi Mi Buan (Scottish Gaelic)
Subject: Lyr Add: Cha Bhi Mi Buan (Scottish Gaelic)
CHA BHI MI BHUAN
[SEISD]
Cha bhi mi buan 's tu bhi bhuam
Thug mi luaidh òg dhut
Cha bhi mi buan 's tu bhi bhuam
Chì mi 'm bàta dol seachad
Muir a sgapadh mu bòrdan
Mar an deachaidh mi mearachd
Bha mo leannan ga seòladh
Bha mo leannan ga stiùireadh
Oigfhear ùr a 'chùl bhòidheach
Oigfhear ùr a 'chùl bhuidhe #
O, b'aithne dhomh òg thu
'Se do bhòidichean fada
'S gaol, a Lachlainn, a leòn mi
O, na faicinn thu tighinn
'S mi gu ruitheadh 'nad chòmhdhail
'S mi gu ruitheadh 'na do choinneamh
Air mo bhonnan gun bhrògan
Ged tha reothadh glè chruaidh ann
'S sneachda fuar air a' mhòine
TRANSLATION
[CHORUS]
I will not survive if you leave me
I gave you my love when I was young
I will not survive if you leave me
I see the ship going by
Its boards slicing through the sea
If I'm not mistaken
My sweetheart was sailing her
My sweetheart was at the helm
The young man of the beautiful tresses
It is your long-established promises
And your love, Lachlan, that have wounded me
Oh if I saw you coming
I would run to meet you
I would run towards you
On the soles of my shoeless feet
Though there's a hard frost
And cold snow on the peat
Sources
http://www.celticlyricscorner.net/lamond/cha.htm
as sung by Mary Jane Lamond of Canada on her album "Bho Thír nan Craobh" (from the land of the trees):
https://open.spotify.com/album/3D6UgxbfKUlBxxP6XFOfyi
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/alltandubh/orain/Cha_Bhi_Mi.html
sung by Fiona Mackenzie and Brian Ó hEadhra - youtube
Cha Bhi Mi Buan - sung by Anne Martin | Spotify