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This is a traditional song from Donegal. In the video is a great cover by the band Mozaik.
Mozaik are Ireland’s Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny (both original members of Planxty), American born old-time musician Bruce Molsky, Dutch guitarist Rens Van Der Zalm, and Hungarian multi-instrumentalist Nikola Parov. Together they form the ultimate global stringband with a legendary lineage. It was on a lengthy drive through Australia that the great Irish singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Andy Irvine first envisioned Mozaik.
Singing in the video is Dónal Lunny. Lunny has been at the forefront of the evolution of Irish traditional music for more than thirty-five years and has participated within the renaissance of that genre during that period. Dónal Lunny has some claim to popularising the bouzouki in the Irish music sphere after its initial introduction by Johnny Moynihan. Lunny ordered a custom-built bouzouki from English luthier, Peter Abnett (who still makes instruments to this day), with a flat back instead of a traditional Greek rounded back. This made it more comfortable to play. In 1981 he went one step further by creating an electric bouzouki, though this failed to catch on.
D'éirigh mé ar maidin a tharraing chun aonaigh mhóir A dhíol 's a cheannacht mar dhéanfadh mo dhaoine romham Bhuail tart ar a' bhealach mé 's shuí mise síos a dh'ól 'S le Siún Ní Dhuibhir gur ól mise luach na mbróg
A Shiún Ní Dhuibhir an miste leat mé bheith tinn? Mo bhrón 's mo mhilleadh má's miste liom tú 'bheigh i gcill Bróinte 's muilte bheith scileadh ar chúl do chinn Ach cead a bheith in Iorras go dtara síoi Éabh 'un cinn
A Shiún Ní Dhuibhir 's tú bun agus barr mo scéil Ar mhná an cruinne go dtug sise 'n báire léi Le gile le finne le mais' is le dhá dtrian scéimh 'S nach mise 'n trua Mhuire bheith scaradh amárach léi
Thiar in Iorras tá searc agus grá mo chléibh Planda 'n linbh a d'eitigh mo phósadh inné beir scéala uaim chuicí má thug mise póg dá béal Go dtabharfainn dí tuilleadh dá gcuirfeadh siad bólacht léi
"Beir scéala uaim chuige Go dearfa nach bpósaim é Ó chuala mise gur chuir sé Le bólacht mé Nuair nach bhfuil agamsa Maoin nó mórán spré Bíodh a rogha aige 'S beith mise 'r mo chomhairle féin"
I set out one morning for market Buying and selling as my people did before me I got thirsty on the way and sat down to drink And with Susan O'Dwyer I drank the price of the boots
Susan O'Dwyer do you care if I'm ill? Sorrow and ruin be upon me if I wish you to be in a graveyard My grief and troubles rain down on you But you can stay in Irras until the tribe of Eve comes to the fore
Susan O'Dwyer, you're the beginning and the end of my story From the women of the world she took the prize With brightness and fairness, goodness and almost perfect beauty And I'm the sad case to leaving her tomorrow
My true love is over in Irras The young sweet thing that refused to marry me yesterday Tell her from me if I give her a kiss That I would give her more if they'd send me a dowry with her
"Tell him from me for certain I won't marry him For I heard that he wanted me with a dowry Since I don't have wealth or much of a fortune Let him have whoever he wishes and I'll be about my own business"
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