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English Translation
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A bhonnáin bhuí 's é mo léan do luí
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Oh yellow bittern, I grieve your dying
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'S do chnámha sínte tar éis do ghrinn
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And your bones stretched out notwithstanding your humour
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'S ní easpa bidh, ach díobháil dí
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It isn't want of food, but of the damned drink
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A d'fhág 'do luí thú ar chúl do chinn
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That's left you dead on your back
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Is measa liom féin ná scrios na Traí
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This is worse to me than the fall of Troy
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Tú a bheith 'do luí ar leaca lom'
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You lying dead on the bare stones
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Is nach ndearn' tú díth ná dola sa tír
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You brought no hurt or harm to anyone
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'S nárbh fhearr leat fíon ná uisce poll
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As you preferred wine to well water
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Ní hiad bhur n-éanlaith atá mé ag éagaoin
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It isn't your birds there that I'm lamenting
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An chuach, an traonach ná'n chorr bhreac
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The cuckoo, the corncrake or the dappled heron
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Ach mo bhonnán buí, a bhí lán den chroí
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It's my yellow bittern, who was full of heart
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'S gur chosúil liom féin é i nós 's i ndath
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And was like myself in style and color
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Bhíodh sé 'síoraí 'g ól na dí
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He was forever drinking the draught
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Is deirtear go mbímse mar sin seal
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And it's said that I am the same way
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Níl aon bhraon dá bhfaighinn nach ligfinn síos
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There isn't a drop I could get that I wouldn't swallow
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Ar eagla go bhfaighinnse bás den tart
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For fear that I could die from thirst
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'S é 'd'iarr mo stór orm ligean den ól
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My love asked me to put down the drink
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Nó nach mbeinnse beo ach seal beag gearr
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Or I wouldn't be alive much longer
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Ach dúirt mé léi gur thug sí an bhréag
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But I told her that she lied
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Is gurbh fhaidide mo shaolsa an deoch úd 'fháil
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And I'd live longer if I kept on drinking
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Mar an bhfeiceann sibh éan an phíobáin réidh
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Didn't you all see the bird of the long gullet
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A chuaigh in éag den tart ar ball?
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Who died from thirst a little while ago?
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'S, a chomharsana cléibhe, fliuchaigí bhur mbéal
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So, my bosom friends, drown your thirst
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Mar ní bhfaighidh sibh aon bhraon i ndiaidh bhur mbáis
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As you wonÂ’t get a drop at all after youÂ’re dead
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