Tour Scotland Travel Video Thoir Mo Shoraidh Thar Ghunaidh Gaelic Song

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of the Thoir mo shoraidh thar Ghunaidh, Gaelic song by a male solo singer from the Gaelic Choir on ancestry visit to Dundee, Tayside, Scotland. The poet bids farewell to Mull, where the cuckoo can be heard on every slope before May Day. He sees the boat coming, carrying the coffin of his beloved. He wishes he had died of a fever before he ever came to know her.

Hug òrann o-rò hù-bha hò,
Mo nighean donn bhòidheach.
Hug òrann ò-ro hù-bha hò.

Thoir mo shoraidh thar Ghunaidh
Gu Muile nam mòr-bheann.

Far an cluinnear a' chuthag
Air gach bruthach ro Bhealltainn.

Chì mi 'm bàta 's i tighinn
Is Iain ga seòladh.

Stiùir dìreach i Iain
Cùm tioram i Dhòmhnaill.

'S i an ciste chaoil chumhaing
Air a dùnadh 's a gròbadh.

'S truagh nach robh mi san fhiabhras
Mun do chuir mi riamh eòlas.

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