Gaelic Waulking Song Group
We perform it with movement, transforming ourselves into a living loom!
When I put a shuttle in it,
it broke every thread that was in it.
The loom has worn me out!
Although I am not familiar with it
I am afraid it won't suit me.
The heddles are too close together,
and there is not an eye where it should be.
Do you think it will pay me?
Or that I will get on well with it?
If this is true, I will go
off on a trip to Australia.
Some of my friends say to me:
"You made a mistake.
You were silly, and lacking sense
when you brought that pest here!"
If I get Hector to it,
to put it in order for me,
he'll say to me: "It's a brute
that came over from Uig, unfortunately!"
'S i 'bheart a rinn mo sh�rachadh,
Nuair a chuir mi innte sp�l,
Bhris ise h-uile sn�th a bh' ann.
'S i 'bheart a rinn mo sh�rachadh,
Ged nach eil mi e�lach oirr'
Tha eagal orm nach c�rd i rium.
Tha na h-iomallan innte cho dl�th
Agus chan eil s�il far 'm bu ch�ir dhi bhith.
'S a bheil sibh an d�il am p�igh i dhomh?
No 'm buin i ri mo n�dur-sa?
Ma bhios sin f�or, gun teid mi fh�n
A null air sgr�ob gu Astr�ilia!
'S e chanas cuid dhe m' ch�irdean dhomh
"'S ann ort a bha am f�illigeadh!
Bha thu gun di� agus tu bha faoin
Nuair thug thu 'n taobh-s' a' phl�igh bha sin!"
Ged bheirinn Eachann She�rais thuic,
'S gun cuir e i an �rdugh dhomh,
'S e chanas e rium "Chan eil innt' ach a' bhr�id
Thanig a null � Uig 's nach bu ch�ir i sin!"