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| dmcg pm |
Posted - 15 Sep 03 - 09:12 am edit (id) | 
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Bab� mo leanabh, Bab� , bab� . Bab� mo leanabh, Bab� , bab� . Faill �¬ faill �³ Faill �©ill o-ro-ho, Gu'n till na feara a db'fhalbb thar s� il (Translation: Sleep my child! Sleep, oh, sleep! And may the men return who have gone over the sea!) Source: One Hundred Songs of Occupation from the Western Isles of Scotland Notes: Taken down from Mrs Boog Watson, Edinburgh, 1898 by Frances Tolmie. Database entry is here. Edited By dmcg - 15-Sep-2003 09:13:43 AM | ||
| masato sakurai pm |
Posted - 15 Sep 03 - 10:50 am edit (id) |
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There's another version. X:1 T:O B� , Mo Leanabh, O B� , O B� M:3/8 L:1/8 Q:3/8=44 B:Margaret Fay Shaw, Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist (RKP, 1955, pp. 144-5) S:From Mrs. John Currie (Peigi N�¬ll), North Glendale, October 1935 N:Mode - Aeolian K:F F|G2 B|c F F|A/G3/2 F|F2 F|G2 G| w:O b� , mo lean-abh, o b� ,_ o b� , O b� , mo _e c e|f2 A|G2 B|d2 c|c2 C|F2 F| w:lean-abh, o b� , o b� , O b� , hi r�¬, hill �¹, ill A A c|G2 G|F F F|G2 A|G3-|G2|] w:o ro, Gun thill na fear-a chaidh bhuainn gu s� il._ F|G G B|c F F|G/ G3/2 F|F2 F|G2 G| w:O, 's~iom-adh cruaidh-fhort-an bha lor-(o)g nam brathan, 'S~gu robh mo _e c e|f2 A|G2 B|d d c|c C C| w:chuid-sa dheth 'na mo l� imh; Mo lean-abh gun bhaist-eadh, 's~mi F2 F|A A c|G G G|F F F|G2 A|G2|| w:fh�¬n fo'n uir-ears, O, 's~iom-adh sgial duil-ich r'a sheinn, r'a sheinn. W: W:Translation: W:Chorus: O b� , my baby, o b� , o b� ; o b� , my baby, o b� , o b� ; W:O b� , hi r�¬, hill �¹, ill o ro; the men who went away from us to sea have returned. W: W:Many a hard fortune follows women, and I have had my share of it; W:My baby unbaptized, and I in want; o, there is many a sad tale to tell. Edited By masato sakurai - 15-Sep-2003 04:07:08 PM | ||
| masato sakurai pm |
Posted - 15 Sep 03 - 07:44 pm edit (id) |
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The lullaby (virtually identical with the Tolmie version) is also in Dorothy Berliner Commins' Lullabies of the World (Random House, 1967, p. 90) as "Sleep, Sleep, My Child." The translation given is: Sleep, sleep, my child. Edited By masato sakurai - 19-Sep-2003 01:33:27 AM | ||
