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A bhonnáin bhuí 's é mo léan do luí |
Oh yellow bittern, I grieve your dying |
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'S do chnámha sínte tar éis do ghrinn |
And your bones stretched out notwithstanding your humour |
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'S ní easpa bidh, ach díobháil dí |
It isn't want of food, but of the damned drink |
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A d'fhág 'do luí thú ar chúl do chinn |
That's left you dead on your back |
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Is measa liom féin ná scrios na Traí |
This is worse to me than the fall of Troy |
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Tú a bheith 'do luí ar leaca lom' |
You lying dead on the bare stones |
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Is nach ndearn' tú díth ná dola sa tír |
You brought no hurt or harm to anyone |
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'S nárbh fhearr leat fíon ná uisce poll |
As you preferred wine to well water |
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Ní hiad bhur n-éanlaith atá mé ag éagaoin |
It isn't your birds there that I'm lamenting |
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An chuach, an traonach ná'n chorr bhreac |
The cuckoo, the corncrake or the dappled heron |
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Ach mo bhonnán buí, a bhí lán den chroí |
It's my yellow bittern, who was full of heart |
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'S gur chosúil liom féin é i nós 's i ndath |
And was like myself in style and color |
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Bhíodh sé 'síoraí 'g ól na dí |
He was forever drinking the draught |
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Is deirtear go mbímse mar sin seal |
And it's said that I am the same way |
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Níl aon bhraon dá bhfaighinn nach ligfinn síos |
There isn't a drop I could get that I wouldn't swallow |
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Ar eagla go bhfaighinnse bás den tart |
For fear that I could die from thirst |
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'S é 'd'iarr mo stór orm ligean den ól |
My love asked me to put down the drink |
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Nó nach mbeinnse beo ach seal beag gearr |
Or I wouldn't be alive much longer |
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Ach dúirt mé léi gur thug sí an bhréag |
But I told her that she lied |
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Is gurbh fhaidide mo shaolsa an deoch úd 'fháil |
And I'd live longer if I kept on drinking |
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Mar an bhfeiceann sibh éan an phíobáin réidh |
Didn't you all see the bird of the long gullet |
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A chuaigh in éag den tart ar ball? |
Who died from thirst a little while ago? |
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'S, a chomharsana cléibhe, fliuchaigí bhur mbéal |
So, my bosom friends, drown your thirst |
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Mar ní bhfaighidh sibh aon bhraon i ndiaidh bhur mbáis |
As you won’t get a drop at all after you’re dead |
