Tá Mé 'mo Shuí
Tá Mé 'mo Shuí
I am Up
Ballad
Ballad
(Irish Gaelic)
(English)
Tá mé mo shuí ó d`éirigh`n ghealach aréir
Ag cur teine síos gan scíth is á fadó go géar
Tá bunadh a` tí `na luí is tá mise liom féin
Tá na coiligh ag glaoch `san saol `na gcodladh ach mé.
Sheacht mh`anam déag do bhéal do mhala is do ghrua
Do shúil ghorm ghlé-gheal fár thréig mé aiteas is suairc
Le cumha do dhiaidh ní léir dom an bealach a shiúil
Is a charaid mo chléibh tá na sléibhte `dul idir mé`s tú
Deiridh lucht léinn gur claoite an galar an grá
Char admhaigh mé é is é `ndiaidh mo chroí istigh a chrá
Aicid róghéar faraor nár sheachain mé í
Chuir sí arraing is céad go géar trí cheart-lár mo chroí.
Casadh bean-tsí dom thíos ag Lios Bhéal an Átha
D`fhiafraigh mé di an scaoilfeadh glas ar bith grá
Is é dúirt sí os íseal i mbriathra soineannta sáimh
"Nuair a théann sé fán chroí cha scaoiltear as é go bráth."
I am up since the moon arose last night
Building a fire over and over again and keeping it lit
The family is in bed and here I am alone,
The cocks are crowing and the whole country is asleep, all but me.
I love your mouth, your eyebrows and your cheeks,
Your bright blue eyes for which I gave up contentment
in longing for you, I cannot see the road to walk,
Friend of my bosom, the mountains are between you and me.
Scholars say that love is a disease,
I've never admitted it before now that my heart is broken,
It's a painful disease that unfortunately I haven't avoided.
It's sending a hundred arrows through the core of my heart.
I met a fairy women at the hollow of Lisbellaw
I asked her to banish any love that I have
She said in words very quietly and simply,
"When love goes to the heart it is never banished."
Thanks!
