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This is a traditional Irish love song performed by Susan McKeown. It appears on her third studio album Bushes & Briars released in 1998. The song is from Donegal and praises the beauty of a woman Máire Bhruinneall, who leaves the singer broken-hearted. Sung in this case by a woman, but let nothing get in the way of the singing of a good song (other versions sung by women include Clannad)
Susan McKeown (born February 6, 1967) is an Irish folk singer and songwriter. She was greatly influenced by her mother, an organist and composer who died in 1982. Susan briefly attended the Municipal College of Music, Chatham Row, Dublin – now incorporated into the Dublin Institute of Technology) – as a teenager before abandoning a potential career in opera order to sing folk and rock. Together with John Doyle, McKeown formed The Chanting House in 1989. Mainly performing as a duo, they toured Europe with Donogh Hennessy and other musicians, playing of original songs and traditional tunes. They released a cassette-only album called The Chanting House in 1990.
Órú, a Mháire bhruinneall, a bhláth na finne, I ndiaidh mé do leanúint aniar anall, Ó, ba bhinne liom do bhéal Ná na cuacha ag seinm, ’S tú d’fhág mise i ndealramh an bháis.
Dá mhéid é mo thuirse Níor léir domh an choinneal, Deir siad gur meisce A mheallas na mná, Mharaigh tú go deo mé, Lagaigh tú go mór mé, Is gach a bhfuil beo domh Bhris tú mo chroí.
Bhí a tríphointe óir léi síos go troigh, ’Gus iad á gcarnadh ar gach taobh, Mharaigh tú go deo mé, Lagaigh tú go mór mé, Is gach a bhfuil beo domh Bhris tú mo chroí.
Bhí mé lá go ceolmhar ins an ród, Tharla domhsa an óigbhean chiúin, Mharaigh tú go deo mé, Lagaigh tú go mór mé, Is gach a bhfuil beo domh Bhris tú mo chroí.
Oh Maire Bruinneal, flower of the Finn I followed you here and there Your mouth was sweeter to me than the cuckoo's singing And it's you that has left me at death's door
I am so grieved I couldn't keep her They said I was one Who deceives women You have killed me forever, You have greatly weakened me And all that's alive to me, You broke my heart
Her golden trident with her down a foot And them being piled on each side You have killed me forever, You have greatly weakened me And all that's alive to me, You broke my heart
One day I was musically in the road I met the quiet young woman You have killed me forever, You have greatly weakened me And all that's alive to me, You broke my heart
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