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Notes From A Hebridean Island Ba Mo Leanabh
   
Credits: Arranged by William Jackson & Mackenzie
   
Appears On: Notes From A Hebridean Island
   
Language: Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic)
   
Other Versions: "Ba Ba Mo Leanabh" on Mary Jane Lamond's album Bho Thìr Nan Craobh
   

Lyrics: English Translation:
   
Sèist: Chorus (after each verse):
O ba ba mo leanabh Oh hush-a-bye, my little baby
Ba mo leanabh, ba Hush, my little baby, hush
O ba ba mo leanabh Oh hush-a-bye, my little baby
Nì mo leanabhs' an ba ba My own little baby will go to sleep
   
Ged tha mi gun chaoraich agam Though I am without a flock of sheep
'S caoraich uil' aig càch And the others all have sheep
Ged tha mi gun chaoraich agam Though I am without a flock of sheep
Dèan a leanabhs' an ba ba You, little baby, can go to sleep
   
Eudail mhòir a shluaigh an dòmhain Darling, of the people of the great world
Dhòirt iad d'fhuil an dé They spilt your blood yesterday
'S chuir iad do cheann air stob daraich They put your head on an oaken post
Tacan beag bho do chré A little way from your corpse
   
Dhìrich mi bheinn mhòr gun anal I breathlessly climbed the great mountain
Dhìrich agus thearn I climbed and I descended
Chuirinn falt mo chinn fo d' chasan I would put the hair of my head under your feet
Agus craicionn mo dhà làimh And the skin of my two hands