Puirt a Beul - Mouth Music

From [email protected] Feb 14 18:23:48 1996
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 22:37:06 -0400
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ECMA winnings

Hello from Vermont!
Thanks for the news about the Rankins.  They were on Rita
MacNeila few weeks ago, and it was fun to see them, even though they
weren't quite Celtic (in the language/traditional sense)
enough to suit me.

Did you happen to acquire the lecture and tape by Michael Newton
that a woman named Susan Self offered, I don't remember if it
was on the Gaelic list or the music newsgroup--but it was very
interesting, about the history and culture of Scotland from the
point of view of how the Gaelic language affected it?  I highly
recommend it.  If you didn't get it and are interested, I could post
(as in xerox and mail, it's 12 pages long) you a
copy of the talk, though I don't have a good way to dupe the audio
cassette.  Not to be missed!  Or I could send you her address
and you could get both from her, she asked some nominal couple of bucks
for the reproducing.

Have you any time to help me with some puirt-a-beul?
This is from Mairi MacInnes, a CD I like a lot, she is a native
speaker from Skye I believe.

Faca tu saor an t-sa\bhaidh?
Faca tu sa\bh an t-saoir?
Faca tu saor an t-sa\bhaidh?
Saor an t-sa\bhaidh sabh an t-saoir

Fhillidh fhillidh saor an t-sa\bhaidh
Fhillidh fhillidh sa\bh an t-saoir
Fhillidh fhillidh saor an t-sa\bhaidh
Saor an t-sa\bhaidh, sa\bh an t-saoir

Between lack of a good dictionary and confusion on
grammatical points, I am not clear at all.  It has to do with a
joiner, or carpenter, and perhaps a barn?  If I could
understand
the changes in the words, I would like it too--the t- is to
keep
incompatible sounds from coming together, yes?  What are
the other changes doing to the meaning?  I would ask this
on the net but can't get it to upload, it takes me a long time
to type
it.
How goes the winter?  It is bitter cold and windy here, but
hey, spring
can't be more than two or three months away!

Warmly, in thought anyway, Karen

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