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''Má leanaim go dian tú siar chun Cairibreach''
''Má leanaim go dian tú siar chun Cairibreach''/
 
''Caillfead mo chiall mura driallfair abhaile liom,''
''Caillfead mo chiall mura driallfair abhaile liom,''



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The melody appears in Edward Bunting's second collection of Irish tunes (1809). Ó Canainn (1978) bemoans antiquarian P.W. Joyce's cavalier treatment of the text of this famous song in the latter's Ancient Irish Music (1875) wherein he writes:

Of the Irish song I retain only a few fragments, which are not worth preserving. Perhaps the reader will be better pleased if I give instead a song of my brother's, composed to suit the air.

Lyrics the the song go:

Má leanaim go dian tú siar chun Cairibreach/ Caillfead mo chiall mura driallfair abhaile liom,

óró, bead ag sileadh na ndeor.

Ná tar im dheoidh gan mórchuid airgid,

stampa Rí Shacsain go cruinn i dtaisce agat,

óró, i gcomhair costais an róid.

Ní bheidh cloig ar ár ndornaibh ó rómhar na ngarraithe

ná ó chruachadh na móna ná an fómhair á leathadh orainn,

beidh rince fada againn más é is fearra leat,

ór agus airgead, ól agus beathuisce,

óró, fad a mhairfimid beo.

Do shiúlfainn an saol go léir is an Bhreathnaisc leat

is níorbh fhearr liom bheith in Éirinn ag éisteacht Aifrinn,

óró, nó i Sasana Nua.

Ach ná creidim ód' bhéal dhá dtrian dá nabrann

mar is fear magaidh thú 'bhíos ag mealladh ban

óró, le do reacaireacht spóirt.

A chumann mo chléibhe is a réaltan mhaisealach,

ní neosfainn bréag ó m' bhéal ar chapall duit

ar eagla an pheaca is go mbeimis damanta.

Grá atá ceangailte im lár nach scarfainn leat

óró go dtéad síos faoin bhfód.