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Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 3 Track 13: Singer: Madge Watterson

https://www.youtube.com/embed/QOcSQGB4gwY?list=PLxvEbuf5XvSubAhwdDxX9xBf14pfAxB5d

Date(s): 1948

Creator(s): Irish Folklore Commission

Transcript: A Manx Lullaby (Arrane y Chlean) - learned from her mother.

Note: some of the words are difficult to understand, and have been left as blank spaces

Gow fea o my lhiannoo .....
Take rest, o my child…….

.... ren rieau er n’gholl [hayrn]
……..did ever have gone…….

Voish ny ..... t’ou fakin ..... glionteenyn
From the …you see……glens

Fod shoh ooilley laa, o lhiannoo veg veen
….this every day, o little gentle child

O lhiannoo veg villish, o caddil gys laa
O little sweet child, o sleep to day

Gow fea, o lhiannoo
Take rest, o child.

Tra heidys yn ……..gow aggle erbee
When will blow the……take any fear

Dy heeaney dty …., dy heeaney cadlee
To bless your…., to bless sleeping

Veagh ny beiyn agh loobit nyn glioonyn ayns foill
Would the beasts be but bending their knees in [fault]

Roish faggys da’n lhiabbee ayd harragh nhione dou .....
Before near to your bed would come…….?

O lhiannoo veg villish, o caddil gys laa
O little sweet child, o sleep to day

Gow fea, o lhiannoo
Take rest, o child.

(Transcribed by Phil Gawne, Cregneash, Rushen. Translated by Fiona McArdle, Kirk Michael)

Language: Manx

Collection: Sound Archive

Level: WHOLE

ID number: SA 0579/3/13

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