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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.
Is trua gán mé thiar Ag Eoghainín Ó Ragadáin Seachtain nó dhó go gcóiríodh S m'fhallaing domh Mise gach neoin a breith 'seoladh A chuid eallaigh dó 'S mé bheith ag baint chnó Faoi theorainn an bhaile seo
Curfá: Is Ailín na rún Na rún is na rún Do Úna Ní Ailleagáin Corraigh do chroí
Tá cailín beag thíos anseo A bhfuil páirc mhaith phise aici Knot ina cúl Is níl imeacht ar fhear aici Sílidh sí féin go bhfuil Spalpaire fir aici Ach bheirimse an leabhair duit Ré fear ar bith aici
Nuair a thigimsa ón tsliabh Bíonn cliabh den mhóin orm Suímsa síos bíonn fuacht Agus tuirse orm 'Sé duirt ainnir na gcliabh Gan stiall de do bhrat agam Is trua gan do ghiall beag Thiar faoi fhód agam
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
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