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English Translation
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O cùm 'ur gealladh
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Keep your promise
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'S na bi 'g ar mealladh
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And don't deceive us
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Tha cuid a chì, 's a strì ri maireann
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There are some who see, who will forever strive
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Cò aig bhiodh dùil
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Who would expect
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Gum biodh ar gaol
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That our love
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An urra tùir, a dha neo thrì
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Would be in the hands of two or three
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'S dé chuir cèarr sibh
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And what put you wrong
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Nach robh na b'fhearr leibh
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That you preferred
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Na dòighean dhaoine, faoineas baile
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Inane urban ways than the ways of your own people
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Neo'n d'thàinig sgleò
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Or did the eye of your world
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Air sùil 'ur saoghail
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Become so blurred
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Nach aithnich, dualchas falamh
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That you cannot recognize an empty culture
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'Ne Port na h-Eala
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Is it the swan song
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Air tràigh gun sealladh
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On the tidal shore without sight
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Air muir neo tìr, a tha fainear dhuinn?
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Of sea or land that's ahead of us?
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Nach mair ri lìnn
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Which will not last an era
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A tha cho tìnn
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That is so sick
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'S a thruailleas àilleachdainn gun bheum
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And pollutes innocent beauty
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'S a chuireas cùl ris
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And turns its back on
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Na daoine a chum ris
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The people that kept to
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Gach gné is nòs, le dòchas fallain
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The roots of the tradition with optimism
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Caith dhiot do phròis
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Discard your pride
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'S cuimhnich d'òig
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And remember your youth
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'S a chainnt thug beòth's dha d'anam
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And the language which gave life to your soul
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Chan eil mo bhalaich
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My boys are not
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Ag cluich air cladach
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Playing on the shore
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Neo measg an t-sluaigh, th 'air thuar 's air tarraing
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Or among the people that are all but gone
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Ach gheibh mi sìth
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But I will have peace
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Ma gheibh 'ad brìgh
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If they learn the essence
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Air beath' ar sinnsirean o thràth
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Of the life of our forebears from early times
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Na cleith do chànan
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Do not hide your language
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Neo h-uile mànran
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And the tenderness
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A chaidh chuir sìos le dìth an eòlas
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Derided by others in ignorance
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Tha Uamh an Oir
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The cave of gold
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Mar chòir nan Gàidheal
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Is every Gael's due
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Nach d'fhuair a leòr dha toradh
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Who have yet to get their fill of its riches
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O cùm 'ur gealladh
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Keep your promise
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'S na bi 'g ar mealladh
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And don't deceive us
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Tha cuid a chì, 's a strì ri maireann
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There are some who see, who will forever strive
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Cò aig bhiodh dùil
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Who would expect
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Gum biodh ar gaol
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That our love
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An urra tùir, a dha neo thrì
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Would be in the hands of two or three
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'S dé chuir cèarr sibh
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And what put you wrong
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Nach robh na b'fhearr leibh
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That you preferred
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Na dòighean dhaoine, faoineas baile
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Inane urban ways than the ways of your own people
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Neo'n d'thàinig sgleò
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Or did the eye of your world
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Air sùil 'ur saoghail
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Become so blurred
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Nach aithnich, dualchas falamh
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That you cannot recognize an empty culture
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