Eoghainín Ó Ragadáin
(Irish name)This is a traditional Irish song arranged by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Ciaran Tourish, Dermot Byrne, Ciaran Curran and Mark Kelly. It appears on Altan’s seventh studio album Another Sky, released in February 2000.
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English
It's a pity I'm not over
At Eoghainín Ó Ragadáin's
For a week or two until he would
Repair my cloak for me
I would be driving his cattle
Each afternoon
And I'd be collecting nuts
On the border on this townland
Chorus (after each verse):
And Ailín, my love
My love and my love
To Úna Ní Ailleagáin
Move your heart
There's a young girl below here
Who has a fine field of peas
A knot in her hair
And she can't get away from a man
She thinks herself, she has got
A big, strapping man
But I swear by the book
That she has no man at all
When I come from the mountain
I've a creel of turf with me
I sit down
And I'm cold and hungry
The maid of the tresses said
I wish I'd a strip of your cloak
It's a pity I haven't your little jaw
Beyond under the sod
It's a pity I'm not over
At Eoghainín Ó Ragadáin's
For a week or two until he would
Repair my cloak for me
I would be driving his cattle
Each afternoon
And I'd be collecting nuts
On the border on this townland