Capercaillie
When day is over and life is done Mine eyes have closed and my strength has gone, O westwards take me and quietly lay me In Aignish graveyard beside the sea. There please leave me by kith and kin By...
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Oh, my country you are on my mind fresh, fragrant Uist of the saplings Where the noble men are found Who gave their hereditary allegiance to 'Mac ic Ailein' Land of bent grass, land of barley Land of...
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O young Charles Stewart, your cause is the reason of my sorrow You took from me everything I had, in the war on your behalf I am not mourning cattle and sheep, but my partner Since I am left alone...
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The everlasting swelling, hear the sound of the high swelling The roar of the sea is as was heard by me as a child Without change, without pity, sweeping up the sand of the shore The everlasting...
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But for you the Cuillin would be an exact and serrated blue rampart girdling with its march-wall all that is in my barbarous heart But for you the sand that is in Talisker compact and white would be a...
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Last night I was dreaming of the girls of the cattle fold Fine, noble, gentle girls they were Singing songs on the shieling I spent last night on the shieling I spent last night on the shieling I...
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Oh boatman, na ho ro eile Oh boatman, na ho ro eile Oh boatman, na ho ro eile My blessings with you wherever you go Translation: Often I look from the highest hill Hoping to see the boatman Will you...
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Faili, faili, faili o ro; Faili, faili, faili o ro; Faili, faili, faili o ro; It is a very long time since I left Lewis I feel the winter night is long long, long, long it is I can see nothing but a...
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Alasdair, son of exile Cholla In your hand I would entrust deeds. Chant... The lord of Ach-nam-breac would be killed by you Chant... He would be buried at the edge of the loch Chant... And although I...
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Gura mise tha fo eislean Moch sa mhaduinn is mi g'eirigh O hi shiubhlainn leat, Hi ri bho, ho rinn o ho Ailein Duinn, o hi shiubhlainn leat Ma 's'en cluasag dhuit a ghaineanih Ma 'se leabaidh dhut an...
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