Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta

27 Mar 99 - 01:21 PM (#66312)
Subject: Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta
From: Maelgwyn (inactive)

Could someone post the lyrics to 'Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta' from the Chieftains CD 'Irish Heartbeat'. I'm pretty sure I copied 'em down wrong and I can't seem to get my friend to remember to bring her CD over again. Thanks.

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29 Mar 99 - 04:31 PM (#66755)
Subject: RE: Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta
From: Maelgwyn (inactive)

Thanks!

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29 Mar 99 - 09:30 PM (#66795)
Subject: RE: Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta
From: Big Mick

You are welcome!

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28 Apr 99 - 01:44 PM (#74048)
Subject: RE: Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta
From: Philippa

corrections to above:
verse 1 'geoillte' should be gcoillte (woodlands), verse 2 (Irish)"Bh'Ta/th Cliath" should be "Baile Átha Cliath" (another name for Dublin), verse 3 "loadubh" should be "londubh" (blackbird). See similar lyrics at Tá mo chleamhnas a dhéanamh

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28 Apr 99 - 02:04 PM (#74063)
Subject: Lyr Add: TÁ MO CHLEAMHNAS DÉANTA
From: Philippa

I had the following saved in my wp; it's not much different except for an extra verse (#3) and that only the Irish verses are sung. The song can be sung to at least two airs, the one used by Altan and Chieftains and the other one recorded by na Casadaigh and published in Ó Baoill. Ceólta Gael.

TÁ MO CHLEAMHNAS DÉANTA

Tá mo chleamhnas déanta ó arú aréir.
'Gus ní mó ná go dtaitníonn an bhean údaí liom féin;
Ach fágfa mé 'mo dhiadh í 'gus racha' mé leat féin
Amach 'fud na gcoillte craobhach.

ó shiúil mise thoir agus shiúil mise thiar,
Agus shiúil mise Corcaigh 'gus sráideanna Bhaile 'Cliath;
Macasamhail mo chailín deas ní fhaca mise riamh,
Sí 'n bhean dubh d'fhág mo chroí cráite.

Is fada 'tá mo tharraingt ins a' bhaile seo le bliain
'Gus ní mar gheall ar Mhuire agus ní mar gheall ar Dhia.
Ach a' dúil go bhfaighinn í bláth na n-úll
'Sí 'n bhean dubh í dtug mo chroí grá di.

ó d'eirigh mé ar maidín dhá uair roimh an lá,
Agus fuair mise litir ó mo mhíle grá
Chuala mé an smólach 's a' lon dubh a' rá
Gur éalaigh mo ghrá thar sáile.

A match was made here last night to a girl I neither love nor like
But I'll take my own advice and I'll leave her behind and I'll roam the wide world over. [literally, I'll roam through the forests]

I walked up and I walked down
I walked Cork, Dublin and Belfast town
But no likeness of my true love did I find
She's the wee lass who left my heart broken.

I've been a long year in this town, and it's not for Mary or for God,
but in hopes that I would win the apple blossom, the dark (haired) maid who's won my heart.

I woke up two hours before day and I got a letter from my true love
And I heard the thrush and the blackbird say that my love has crossed the ocean.

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28 Apr 99 - 02:35 PM (#74077)
Subject: RE: Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta
From: Colm

Tá legan den amhrán seo abhfuil an ghaolainn agus an Béarls measgtha ann. Colm

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28 Apr 99 - 02:51 PM (#74084)
Subject: RE: Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta
From: Philippa

a Choilm,
An gciallaíonn tú go bhfuil an dá theanga measgtha sna rainn céanna? Bhiodh suim ar leith ag Annraoi Ó Preith, atá ag déanamh taighde ar mhacarónachas, san leagan ud.
Sna leaganacha ag na Chieftains agus ag Altan agus atá i gcló sa leabhar ag Diarmuid Ó Muirithe, cantair rann i mBearla (aistriúchan) i ndiaidh rainn i nGaeilge.

Colm says there's a version in which Irish and English are mixed together and I want to check whether he means the two languages are mixed together in the same verse, rather than in alternating verses as in th Chieftains, Altan and Ó Muirithe (published) versions.

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