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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.