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English Translation
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Eilean fraoich, eilean fraoich
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Heather isle, heather isle
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Eilean fraoich nam beann àrd
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Heather isle of the high mountains
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Far an d' fhuair mi m' àrach òg
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Where I was brought up
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Eilean Leòdhais mo ghràidh
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My beloved Isle of Lewis
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Far an robh mi 'n làithean m' òig
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Where I used to run barefoot
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Ruith gun bhròig do an tràigh
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To the shore as a child
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'S mi ri streup gu nead an eòin
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Climbing to the birds' nests in every crevice
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Anns gach còs san biodh àl
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Where there might be a brood of nestlings
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Thug mi greis an làithean m' òig
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I spent some time in my young days
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Air a' mhòintich nam phàisd'
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Out on the moor herding
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'S mi ri tional nan laogh òg
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The young calves and the cows
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Is nam bò aig an tràth
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At their milking time
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Far am faca mi an òigh
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Where as a young man I saw the maid
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Thuit mi òg anns a' ghràdh
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With whom I fell in love
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'S ann a chionn nach 'eil i beò
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It is because she is no longer alive
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Tha mi seòladh air sàl
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That I am sailing overseas
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'S ged a tha i 'n Cladh na h-Aoidh
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And though she is at rest in the graveyard of Eye
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Far nach cluinn i mo dhàn
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Where she cannot hear my song
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Chan eil madainn 's chan eil oidhch'
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No morning or night
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Nach bi cuimhn' air a ghràdh
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Passes without my remembering her love
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'S e gun chaill mi bean mo ghaoil
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It is because I lost my beloved wife
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Dh'fhàg mo shaothair aig càch
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That others have taken on my labor
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'S e dh'fhàg Uilleam leis a' chloinn
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And left William with the children
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An taobh thall de an t-sàl
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On the far side of the ocean
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'S ged a bheirte dhomh an tìr
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And although I might be given the land
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Eadar chraobhan is bhàrr
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With trees and crops as well
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B'fhearr leam a bhi measg an fhraoich
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I would prefer to be among the heather
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Ann an Tir nam Beann Ard
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In the Land of the High Mountains
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Eilean fraoich, eilean fraoich
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Heather isle, heather isle
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Eilean fraoich nam beann àrd
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Heather isle of the high mountains
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Far an d' fhuair mi m' àrach òg
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Where I was brought up
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Eilean Leòdhais mo ghràidh
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My beloved Isle of Lewis
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