Credits: Pádraig Duggan and Paul Brennan. This song appears on Clannad's debut album Clannad released in 1973.

Credits: Pádraig Duggan and Paul Brennan. This song appears on Clannad’s debut album Clannad released in 1973.

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Irish

Bhí mise i ngrá le cailín
Le blianta anuas
Liza ab ainm di
Ach go tobann thánaig sí chugam
Le scéal a bhris mo chroí

Chorus (after each verse):
Liza
Liza mo stór
Liza
Fan liom

Chuartaigh mise thoir
Agus chuartaigh mise thiar
Chuartaigh mé arís fé dhó
Go dtáinig an lá ar phill mo ghrá
Le fanacht liom go deo

Bhí Liza ar shíul gan dóigh
Ni thánaig sí mo thoir
Bhí Liza in bean gan chéill
Ach is cuma tá muid go sona
I mbothán beag línn féin

English

I'd been in love with a girl
For years and years
Liza was her name
But suddenly she came to me
With news that broke my heart

Chorus (after each verse):
Liza
Liza baby
Liza
Stay with me

I searched high
I searched low
I searched again and again
Till one day my love returned
To stay with me forever

Liza was off wandering
She didn't come looking for me
Liza was a little fool
But who cares?
We're happy In a little hut by ourselves

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