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>Hi. I'm not sure this has anything to do with >anything. However, it hit a nerve so I'll post it back >to you. >Reading it sounded like an old folk song. The meaning >is a bit fuzzy for me. But it goes along the lines of: > >"We're going to America, for that is where we go. >We'll know our way, avoid the woods, the dark we'll >never know. >We'll eat the seagrass with seahorses and dance upon >the waves >And apples and sugar and nuts will be ours for we'll >never be hungry again." > >I'm paraphrasing it as I remember hearing it as a >child so it's probably a bit off. But I know that I >was told that it was sung by Irish imigrants after the >potato famine and has to do with promises that were >made between family members who feared they might >never see each other even if they managed to all make >it here. > >Just a thought. Take it for whatever it's worth. >--Linda > > >>>Hi, to all. >>> >>>I am posting with an Irish Lass, From Limerick, and >>>now living in the Scottish Highlands. But she speaks >>>both forms of Gaeilge. Although we post to each other >>>in English, She usually throws in afew lines of >>>Gaeilge. I do my best, with my Dictionary, But either >>>can't find alot of the words, or don't understand the >>>"meaning" (???). Can anyone help in translating this: >>> >>> >>>"Gur ann an America tha sinn an dràsd', >>>Fo dhubhar na coille, nach teirig gu bràth. >>>'N uair dh'fhalbhas an dùlachd 's a thionndaidh's am >>>blàths, >>>Bithidh cnothan, bidh ùbhlan 's bithidh an siùcar >>>a'fàs." >>> >>> Go raibh m`ile maith agat..... >>>Gearoid >>Día dhuit arís, a Ghearóid >>Your lass seems to be writing in a mixture of Irish >>and Scots Gaelic. My Scots Gaelic is very rusty but I >>will try and do the best I can! >> >>Its over to America that we are??going?? >>Dont ever go into the darkness of the woods >>At the harvesting of the dulse(seaweed)and the >>frothing of the waves >>There will be nuts and apples and the ???sugar?? will >>be growing >> >>I'm sure that I have missed out on some of the finer >>points of meaning. >>Is mise Brian
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