Composition Details
- Composed by: Traditional Gaelic
- Arranged by: Stephen Smith
- Published by: Stephen Smith
- Canadian Work:
Yes
- Duration: 2:50
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Sample Tracks:
Recorded by Elektra
Performed in Concert
In Collections
Conductor Notes:
published as “Two Gaelic Songs”. The other is “E Mo Leannan”
Translation:
My swift-moving little basket,
They couldn’t hear your sound
O woe is me, oh woe is me.
Against the roar of the waves
I am filled with grief
Oh woe is me, oh woe is me.
Your two little piercing eyes
Watching me through the opening
And I cannot reach you, and I cannot reach you.
The others are tending the sheep,
And I am tending the child
And I cannot reach you, and I cannot reach you.