HE MANDU

[Uglytrog]

Clan Duncan Society (Web search it) has serveral versions of this, including a traditional version with no music. They use it for the sound track of the Highlands Clearances Video.

[Uglytrog]

He Mandu, My Lover.

It's a pity that what I want isn't on its way - a lad and a letter, a horse and a saddle.

I would go across the sea with my lover, without delay.

If I had the wing of a finch, the flight of a bird, the webbed foot of a duck,

I would swim the narrows, right across the Sound of Islay and the Orkney Sound.

I would go out into the castle and bring out my lover.

[DGANTT510]

got an englsih translation for this its great

[alejandromatheson]

He mandu 's truagh nach digeadh He mandu siod 'gham iarraidh He mandu gille 's litir Hi ri oro each is diollaid He mandu hi ri oro ho ro hu o Nam biodh agam sgiath a ghlaisein iteag nan eoin spog na lachain Shnamhainn na caoil air an tarsuinn an Caol Ileach 's an Caol Arcach 'S rachainn a steach chon a' chaisteal 's bheirinn a mach as mo leannan.

[DGANTT510]

do you have an english translation for this