Cití Na gCumann
Kitty, My LoveThis is a traditional Irish song arranged by Frankie Kennedy, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Mark Kelly and Ciarán Curran. It appears on the album Altan, the second studio album by Frankie Kennedy and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, originally released in 1987. See another version Cití Na gCumann by Máire Brennan.
Note from kokoshneta:
Do you have any further information about this song? Edit this page and help us expand this section. ^closeCití na gCumann is that kind of strange usage of the genitive plural that goes with names (especially in the vocative) and implies the speaker’s own attitude towards the vocative:
A Chití na gcumann – ‘O Kitty of loves/companionships’ = Kitty, my love/companion
A Chití na gcarad – ‘O Kitty of friends’ = Kitty, my friend
A Chití na gcaomh – ‘O Kitty of dear ones’ = Kitty, my dear
A Chití na gcliabh – ‘O Kitty of bosoms’ = Kitty, my beloved (my bosom-friend)
Irish
English
Lovable Kitty do no reject me
Walk away now and escape with me
In a wooded glen or mountain
or for a while in the flowering wood
I would marry you unknownst to the world
Or to the priest if I could
And if we cannot be bound in Ireland
Let’s both go abroad.
I arrived in this town last night
And it was quite late for me
Intending to make the match
And that I would never be parted from her
Her Father did not reach an agreement
It was not my fault
I bid farewell to my kinsfolk
We shall never meet again
I received neither welcome nor hospitality
Since I came to this village
Since my love heard
That I gave my hand to a woman
They think I am a married man
But if they do it is not true
By the book which is in my pocket
I was enticing a young woman.