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Lyrics
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English Translation
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Sèist
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Chorus (after each verse)
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O ba ba mo leanabh
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Oh hush-a-bye, my little baby
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Ba mo leanabh, ba
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Hush, my little baby, hush
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O ba ba mo leanabh
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Oh hush-a-bye, my little baby
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Nì mo leanabhs' an ba ba
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My own little baby will go to sleep
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Ged tha mi gun chaoraich agam
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Though I am without a flock of sheep
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'S caoraich uil' aig càch
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And the others all have sheep
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Ged tha mi gun chaoraich agam
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Though I am without a flock of sheep
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Dèan a leanabhs' an ba ba
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You, little baby, can go to sleep
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Eudail mhòir a shluaigh an dòmhain
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Darling, of the people of the great world
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Dhòirt iad d'fhuil an dé
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They spilt your blood yesterday
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'S chuir iad do cheann air stob daraich
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They put your head on an oaken post
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Tacan beag bho do chré
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A little way from your corpse
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Dhìrich mi bheinn mhòr gun anal
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I breathlessly climbed the great mountain
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Dhìrich agus thearn
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I climbed and I descended
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Chuirinn falt mo chinn fo d' chasan
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I would put the hair of my head under your feet
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Agus craicionn mo dhà làimh
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And the skin of my two hands
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