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Lyr Add: Ailiu Eanai

19 Feb 99 - 04:17 PM (#59274)
Subject: Lyr Add: AILIU EANAI
From: Alice

I requested the lyrics and translation to English on my musicmail email list today, and Paulette Kirkey in Canada provided this. It was recorded by Mary O'Hara on "A Song For Ireland". Alice in Montana
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AILIÚ ÉANAI
(as Gaeilge)

Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!
Shiúlas an drúcht 's an ghrian ag éirí,
Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!

Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!
Sheólas mo bhó sa ghleanntán sléibhe
Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!

Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!
Fuaireas rómham an táiliúir aerach,
Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!

Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!
Ag fuagháil cótamór de'n bhrédín
Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!

Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!
Nach álainn é mo tháiliúir aerach,
Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!

Ailiú Éanai (as Béarla)
(Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai! is an untranslated yodelling
call pronounced
A-lee-oo eh-nee, a-lee-oo eh-ree)

Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!
I walked in the dew when the sun was rising,
Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!

Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!
I drove my cow through the mountain valley,
Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!

Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!
I met there the merry tailor,
Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!

Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!
Sewing an overcoat made of tweed.
Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!

Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!
Isn't my merry tailor a lovely man?
Ailiú éanai! Ailiú éarai!

19 Feb 99 - 09:37 PM (#59321)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Aili£ 쳌anai
From: Big Mick

Alice,

You are entirely too quick for me. I came here to post these. Great song, eh?

Mick

20 Feb 99 - 05:52 PM (#59396)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Aili£ 쳌anai
From: Philippa

any information on the origin/use of the song? did it used to be sung while working (spinning, milking,fulling cloth, etc)? Or as a lullaby? or...?

30 Jul 99 - 02:11 PM (#100946)
Subject: adulterated accents
From: Philippa

this is one of a few songs which needs repair of its diacritical marks. I wonder, Alice, would you mind posting your song again?

30 Jul 99 - 02:27 PM (#100952)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Aili£ *anai
From: Alice

yikes! how did that happen?
The first time I posted it, it did not look that way. So what do I do? not include the marks? What is the remedy, Philippa... keep in mind I am on a Mac.
alice

30 Jul 99 - 02:46 PM (#100957)
Subject: relax, don't worry
From: Philippa

Alice, if you post it again, it should be okay. When Mudcat was technically revamped earlier this year, all the letters with accent marks, umlauts and so on (letters not on the ordinary keyboard) were transmuted. New lyrics were appearing okay, but there was so much old stuff damaged that apparently somebody wisely changed the filter so that the previously archived lyrics were restored. Any lyrics added since then are appearing okay too, while the small number of lyrics added during the interval before the repair was done look funny (as you can see)
Although if you post exactly what you did before it should look alright, the safest thing to do is to use html codes in place of the accented letters. - in case the filter is changged again - I've been adding these to some of my more recent postings by using 'find' and 'replace' functions to change all the relevant letters (thus for example I can change all of the é s in a document in one fell swoop). I think the codes or a link to them are in the html thread, courtesy Joe offer as far as I recall.

30 Jul 99 - 02:55 PM (#100959)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Aili£ *anai
From: Alice

test
Ali<´>u

30 Jul 99 - 02:59 PM (#100962)
Subject: Lyr Add: AILIÚ ÉANAI
From: Alice

ok, I'll have to work on this when I have more time to add the html to really fix it. In the mean time, if anyone else want to do it, here it is again.
alice
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