Annotation:Caiseal Mhumhan

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 CAISEAL MHUMHAN (Cashel of Munster). AKA - "Caiseal Mumhan." AKA and see "The Bog-Deal Board," "Cois na Brighde," "The Soft Deal Board." Irish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Caiseal Mhumhan Phósfainn thú gan bha gan phunt gan áireamh spré, agus phógfainn thú maidin drúchta le bánú an lae. 'S é mo ghalar dubhach gan mé is tú, a dhaiaghrá, i gCaiseal Mumhan is gan de leaaba fúinn ach clár bog déil. Siúil, a chogair, is tar a chodladh liom féin sa ghleann: gheobhaidh túfoscadh, leaba fhlocias is aer cois abhann; beidh na srutha ag gabháil thariainn faoi ghéaga crann; beidh an londubh inábhfochair, is an chéirseach dhonn. Searc mo chléibh a thug mé féin duit is grá tri rún, 's go dtaga sé de chor sa tsaol dom bheith lá 'gus tú is ceangal cléire eadriann aroan is an fáinne dlúth; is dá bhfeicfinn féin mo shearc ag aon fheaar gheobhainn bás le cumha. Cashel in Munster I would wed you without cattle, without money or a counted dowry: I would kiss you on a dewy morning of the lightening day. I am sick with sadness not to be with you, beloved, in Cashel in Munster - were our bed but a board of bog deal. Come to the valley, my love: come lie with me; shelter you'll find there, a flock bed, fresh air by the river; the streams will flow beside us under tree branches; the blackbird will be our neighbour, and the brown song-thrush. The love of my heart I give you, my secret devotion. May that day come, in life's course, when you and I have the holy bond between us, and the steadfast ring - for if I saw my love with another I would die of sorrow.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Ó Canainn (Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland), 1995; No. 20, p. 24.  Recorded sources:

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