Fuígfidh Mise’n Baile Seo
I Will Leave This TownThe music of this song is composed by Michael McGlynn and is a setting of a text from the Irish tradition. It appears on Anúna’s eighth album Cynara, released in 2000.
From Philippa
Do you have any further information about this song? Edit this page and help us expand this section. ^closeFuígfidh Mise an Baile Seo is the song of a woman who has made a bad match. She married young for the want of money, but she’s married a miser who won’t even let her out to Mass on feast days, let alone take her to the ale-house for a drink, and doesn’t romance her like a young man would. Finally, she says it’s a pity that people who are dissatisfied in marriage can’t go to the fair and trade partners the way they can sheep and cattle.
Irish
English
I will leave this town,
For it is dark and ugly
And go to Connacht
Or west to Laighean Uí Eabhra
The place where I'll get a kiss
From my darling and a thousand welcomes
A nice herd of cows
And permission to marry the tailor
Mary, and isn't it a pity,
And me married to the scoundrel
Who won't let me go to Mass
On a holiday or a Sunday
Who won't take me to the pub,
Or drink a gold guinea with me
Or hold me in his heart
As a young man would
The place where I'll get a kiss
From my darling and a thousand welcomes
A nice herd of cows
And permission to marry the tailor
I married young
For the promise of money
My two hands full of them,
My mind was not satisfied
Isn't it a pity I can't be rid of him,
As with a cow or sheep
If you don't like the bargain,
You can take him back to the fair
I will leave this town...
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