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English Translation
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Sèist
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Chorus (after each verse)
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Hì hó leagain, hì hó m'aighean
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Hi ho my pet, hi ho my heifers
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Hì hó leagain, hì hó m'aighean
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Hi ho my pet, hi ho my heifers
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M'aighean ho leagain, hì hó m'aighean
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My heifers ho, my pet, hi ho my heifers
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Mo chrodh laoigh air gach taobh dhen bhuailidh
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My cattle on each side of the fold
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Faic an dris ud air an lìonaig
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See the bramble bush on the meadow
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'S i a' lùbadh leis na smeuran
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Weighed down with berries
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'S amhuil siud agus m'aghan ceudlaoigh
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Akin to my heifer of first calf
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An t-agh is ciataich' de chrodh na buailidh
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The most elegant of all the cattle in the fold
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'S ì mo rùn sa an t-aghan caisfhionn
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The object of my affection is the white-shanked heifer
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Cha 'n iarr i buarach a chur mu casan
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She doesn't need a fetter around her shanks
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'Nuair 'bhiodh càch anns na sìomain naisgte
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When others would be in plaited collars
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'S e siòd' á Sasuinn bhiodh air mo ghuailfhionn
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English silk would be on my white-shouldered heifer
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M'eudail fhìn an t-aghan caisfhionn
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My own darling is the white-shanked heifer
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Théid dhan' bheinn is nach iarr i dhachaigh
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Who goes to the hill and won't want to come home
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Cudthrom bainne air a casan
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A weight of milk on her, weighing her down
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Is laogh a h-altrum le gheum ga buaireadh
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Her suckling calf tormenting her with its lowing
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Dh'aithnichinn grìsfhionn a tighinn air fàire
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I'd recognize the brindled one coming into view
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Leis a mheanbh-bhric a tha mu bràighe
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With freckles on her breast
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Rìgh gur ro-mhath a thogail àil i
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Oh how well she raises her young
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A suas thar chàich 's i an ceannard buailidh
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Above the rest, she is the queen of the fold
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M'eudail ise a chrodh na tìr seo
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Beloved is she among the cattle of this land
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Bheir i dhòmhsa am bainne prìseil
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She will give me the precious milk
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Gheibh mi càise 's gheibh mi ìm dhith
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I will get cheese and butter from her
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'S nam biodh i uam gum bu mhór dhìth i
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And if she were far from me, greatly would I miss her
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