Bean Pháidín / An Poc Ar Buile
Páidín's Wife / The Mad Puck GoatThis is a mix of two traditional Irish songs; Bean Pháidín and An Poc Ar Buile, arranged by Michael McGlynn. It appears on Anúna’s 1993 album Anúna. Bean Pháidín is a sean-nós from the Connemara region in the west of Ireland. It’s about a jealous woman who longs to be Páidín’s wife. An Poc Ar Buile is a patriotic fighting song that uses a mad, ferocious goat as a symbol for the fighting and undominable spirit of the Irish.
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Chorus 1:
It's a great pity that I'm not, that I'm not
It's a great pity that I'm not the wife of Páidín
It's a great pity that I'm not, that I'm not
And the woman that he has to be dead
I would go to Galway, to Galway
And I would go to Galway with Páidín
I would go to Galway, to Galway
And I would return in the boat with him
(Chorus 1)
I would go to an Clochán
And west by Béal Á' na Báighe
I would look in through the windows
I would spot Páidín's wife
(Chorus 1)
May your legs be broken, be broken
May your legs be broken, Páidín's wife
May your legs be broken, be broken
May your legs and your bones be broken
(Chorus 1)
As I set out
To old Dromore
With pike in hand to join a meitheal
Who should I meet but a tan puck goat
And he roaring mad in ferocious mettle
Chorus 2:
Alliliú puilliliu
Alliliú tá an poc ar buile
Alliliú puilliliu
Alliliú tá an poc ar buile
He chased me over bush and weed
And through the bog the run proceeded
'Til he caught his horns in a clump of gorse
And on his back I jumped unheeded
(Chorus 2)
When the sergeant stood in Rochestown
With a force of guards to apprehend us
The goat, he tore his trousers down
And made rags of his breeches and new suspenders
(Chorus 2)
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