Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 3 Track 13: Singer: Madge Watterson
https://www.youtube.com/embed/QOcSQGB4gwY?list=PLxvEbuf5XvSubAhwdDxX9xBf14pfAxB5dDate(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