I wish I were in the cranberry isles, where the diamonds are often seen. I'd sit her doon beside of me and dress her in a goon o' green (gaelic chorus that I know only by sound)
Her hair was like the thr'ads of gold, her beauty wove' on nature's loom. Her face was like the morning sun, and wi'out her I am undone. (Chorus)
So I know these two verses and the melody, but the Gaelic I know only by the sounds --- from a childhood lullaby as remembered by my mother from her Gaelic-speaking nurse (circa 1900).
I would love to know about this song: are there more verses? Where is it from? Were the Isles actually some other Isles, and my mother only remembered "cranberry"? Or was this a Nova Scotia Scottish song and these are theMaine Cranberry Isles?