Clannad - Neansai Mhile Gra Lyrics

A Neansaí, 'mhíle gra, a bhruinneall 'ta gan smal

Go bhfeice mise'n t-adh 'gus an sean ort

Ba ghile do dha laimh na cur geal na tra

Na'n eala 's í a' snamh ar an Éirne

Is glaise liom do shuil na braon beag den drucht

Is binne liomsa tu na na teadaí

'S mur' n-ealaí tusa liomsa titfidh me i lionndubh

'Gus cuirfear insa chill 'do dheidh me



Is iomaí sin guth mna a chluinimse 'ngach aird

Abhus agus taobh thall den Éirne

Go Corcaigh na gCuan 's go Beal Ath' na Sluaigh

'Sí Neansaí 'thug bua ar a' meid sin

A Mhuire 'gus a Dhia, narbh aoibhinn deas e'r saol

Da mbeinnse agus í le cheile?

Trathnóna aoibhinn ciuin, ó mise 'gus mo run

Ag cogarnaíl ar uaigneas sleibhe



Beir litir uaimse suas chuig Neansaí chaoin na gcuach

Is aithris di gur buartha ata me

Aithris di arís nach gcodlaím fein aon oíche

Le harraing ata trí mo thaobh deas

Aithris e da suil, aithris e da cul

Aithris e da mein mhaith cheillí

Aithris e da ceann 's da beilín ata binn

Gur ghiorraigh sí go cinnte mo laetha'


Translation
Rise up, ye stalwart men

And put the pitch alight on your torch sticks

Vanquish those who would do us evil

And establish the rule of France

And oh woman of the house, what ails you?

Oh woman of the house, in two years or three

From this year out the land will be rent free

And oh woman of the house, what ails you?

Here's a jug on the table and the beer's coming

And the Duke of York has sufficient arms

The French and the Spaniards at the shore's edge

And how bitter that is than woman's chatter

Alas and alack when I was young

Two years old and no evil thought in my mind

That I didn't join the King's navy or army

Instead of spending my life looking after you


May my back be broken under this weight

If I ever come back to bring you sorrow

And so many women from here to the Blackwater River

That would go along the road with me and have a drink