@69soulful I was wrong, in scottish gaelic bh is always a bh but in Irish it's either a W sound or a V sound depending on the vowel after wards. I speak and study irish, not scots gaelic that why I got confused :)
My aural journeys have led me all over the world, and many times to the lands of the Gaels, but I had never heard this song before. I am very pleased to have heard it for the first time through your lovely voice! Thank you.
Lassie Lassie, you could bring a tear to a stone. If I close my eyes I can see Gairloch Bay, and feel the mist on my face. When singing a Gaelic song try adding a bit rebellion to your heart. Remember we are a people who sing about how much we miss home while sittiong infront of our fire. Oh and each area has an accent in the Gaelic there is no one pronounciation. When sung to a Gael they will hear the beauty and love you.
@hexcane Actually that was a bit harsh, i didn't really mean that so sorry!!! But she has to sing in Scottish Gaelic and not in English! There is no question about that and no arguments!!!
She may be bonnie but she's murdering this Scottish Gaelic song!! You never sing a traditional Scots Gaelic song with English words. Maybe Irish Gaels are a bit more lenient about using English words for their Gaelic songs but us Scottish Gaels are not!! Totally and utterly against it!! So start Gaelicising these bastardising words!!!
@hexcane Aye and you've got small minded syndrome!! I love reading shite like this from people who don't have a clue about the laws Scottish Gaelic culture, the linguistical pride and everything that goes with it!! You just want to get in her pants you perverted bastard, so stop thinkin with your wee willy and start expanding your wee brain and for Heaven's sake, start reading and understanding a bit more to Scots Gaelic culture before you wank off on these comments aye??!!
@Albainn1 lol... The girl is doing her best, though, in fairness. Lovely healing voice, but to do it truly in traditional style would need years of practice.
It's amusing though, to see modern "druids" tramping across the fields to get to a stone circle, and hear their accents, everything from English, French and German reciting english language prayers to Brigid and such.
In the end though, people go to the lands where their spirit takes them, and I respect that. Welcome.
Music is great. I just cant get over your eyes. They will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you for the gift of sharing them with the world. Its a much more beautiful place for you having doing so.
Nah i'm sorry walkertongdee, you just don't know enough and you don't have the cultural experience to comment on something like this. You never sing a Scottish Gaelic song with English translated words!! Its an insult and your tainting the language by its former suppressor!!! Its not done and you don't do it, full stop!!!!
No, i'm not being overly harsh and yes it is an insult to the Gaelic language to sing a 'Gaelic' song with English words! You just don't do it! Its like wearing a kilt with an English or British flag on it! Its a discrace and would never be done!! I'm a native speaker of Scottish Gaelic so i would know about it and MeatRind doesn't have a clue and is probably ponsing around her kitchen in a saggy bra and sweaty underwear right now cooking English muffins!!!
@Albainn1 Lighten up, if all people think like you the music and literature that changes the world would never be apreciated by people who speak the hundreds of languages worldwide. This world will never know and be united as one people apreciating other cultures, there is no reason why we cant have both...
Some of these criticisms seem overly harsh. This is quite beautifully sung in my humble opinion, and those of you who think that it is an unforgivable offense to translate gaelic into english, I suggest you go back to what ever misbegotten and backwater hill you came from and continue to traipse about in your kilt, screaming bloody murder at the English. At least we wont have to hear your Philistine opinions.
thats a bit bit harsh, even for a Scottish person, what ever problem you may have with her wording you can't say she hasn't a fine voice. build a bridge buddy its not all doom and gloom......
Learn the Gaelic words you ridiculous fool! Its such an instult to the Scottish Gaels to sing a 'Gaelic' song with English words! You just don't do it, you never translate a Gaelic song to English, you sing it in Gaelic!!
She's a crap singer too, she's all over the joint, its like listening to a hipogryff moaning for its mother's breast while taking a shite!!
beautiful voice... My grans used to sing and speak to me in Gaelic..... I close my eyes and hear your voice deep in my soul...... Keep singing We hear you in Canada
you have such a beautiful voice.... Gaelic is the language my grans sang and spoke to me..... I could just close my eyes and feel your voice deeply in my soul..... Keep singing ...... We here you in Canada
it just reminds me of a crowded pub in ireland, and in the corner the best looking woman in the pub would start singing, then the people stop talking, and if even for 3 minutes no matter whats on your mind, it just does'nt matter anymore, two songs you may like 1(the parting glass)2(red is the rose), anyway keep it up kido.....
it just reminds me of a crowded pub in ireland, and in the corner the best looking woman in the pub would start singing, then the people stop talking, and if even for 3 minutes no matter whats on your mind, it just does'nt matter anymore, two songs you may like 1(the parting glass)2(red is the rose), anyway keep it up kido.....
since i first seen this video, i have also viewed all the other ones you have posted, but this is unreal, by far my favourite, im an irish man so maybe im too much on one side, but seriously you could create world peace with that voice, and looks, a true cailin...........
@thedagracky yeah..another Irish..my opinion is already spoke..*pretty non-irish girl and all..* but yeah..i listen to this song whenever i've the chance.Sing for Us more..Please?
She's shite and so are your ears!! Its a Scottish song first of all and its not Irish at all!! Second, learn the Gaelic words you fool!! What an insult to hear a Gaelic song sung with English words!! What an insult to Gaelic song!!! Stupid cow!!
@thedagracky Nah Irish man, your being too naive and pervish at the same time!! I'd keep well out of this if i were you! Her voice is shite and so is the translation!! You don't sing a Scottish "Gaelic" song with "English" words!! Its a discrace! Surely you'd know that coming from Ireland but maybe your one of those Anglicised bunch!! Very sad, and i'd watch out, she's probably quite a bit younger than you!!
the voice is beautiful,the song is beautiful,and "even though she's not Irish" the singer is too..thank you for sharing your voice with us beautiful girl.
@Albainn1 my bad..i wasn't taught my blood..like many anymore..hard to adhere to what u don't know..long and short..this song tugs at threads with me,irish threads scottish threads,fuuuuck i dunno..but yeah.so i was wrong..
@SunDown419 Its a traditional Scottish song you fucktard!! Typical Irish American arseholes, don't know the slight difference between Scottish and Irish!! Wouldn't even understand it through the colour of shit!!!
@Albainn1 Doesn't really matter what the differences are between Irish Gaels and Scottish Gaels, does it?
Both are not only pictish-gaelic people, but more than that, they are basically the same people, except for a dash of regional seasoning from invaders.
Irish singers regularly sing Scottish songs as native, and I know Scottish singers sing Irish songs as native. It's only the later songs written in English that become distinctive as being Scottish or Irish.
Fear a Bhata is pronounced 'Far ah Wata' and it means 'The Man Of the Stick'. He walked with a stick because he was 'dall' or 'blind', as so many travelling poets and harpists in Ireland were during the Classical period. This is not a song about a boatman. Blind folk usually stay out of the water........
To all, there are different dialects of the gaelic.
CenturyGamer.. please learn another , language. In MY culture, the culture of the north, the Gale. We don't talk to people like you or about people the vile profanic way you do. We are educated, well read, and ALL of us speak at least 2 languages fluently and do not wish to be associated with the filthy ignorance you display.
What a voice! Persue that dream with your voice you will go the path that we all only can dream of! Was in Tain last summer and on Mull. Going back this year, can't wait.
FH is silent in the choruses, I think (?). I am sure that in KAREN MATHESON's rendition, with Capercaillie at the Fruitmarket tn Glasgow (Feb. 2009)(available on YouTube), that she sings ... EER UH VAATA . Fh is often silent in Scotttish Gaelic, no??
Chan eil cuihmne agam de an t-ainm a th'air. I cant remember what its called grammatically, maybe vocoative case, basically because she is speaking directly to the boatman fear a' bhata becomes fhir a' bhata. This is normal in Gàidhlig, for instance when speaking to seumas it becomes a' sheumais or mairead - a' mhairead. Hope that helped!
I don't understand a freaking word of Scottish Gaelic... A bit Irish Gaelic... But one thing I know is that you are a beautiful lass... and sings lovely...
lol, only a few words can be understood universally, depending on which dialect of each is in question, it's no great wonder, after all, they usually don't even roll their "r"s in Irish anymore.
True, mostly because of the British neighbour who don't roll "r's" at all. I am also a french speaker and in Canada the R's are even in french less and less rolled or We say "le R craché" ( the spitted R) like in France. It sounds like if you have a hair in the throat and want to spit it out. I learn Irish Gaelic mostly on my own. When I want to practice I go to the pub downtown. We still have Scottish Gaelic speaker in Nova-Scotia's Cap-Breton and New-Foundland. Some in Montreal of course.
Everybody says your good but the gaelic parts are fucked up.
First lets get this straight, fear a'bhata sounds like this: Fyar a vatuh, if your going to attempt to sing something with gaelic literature in areas. Thats if its scottish gaelic your trying to sing. Pish, you sound too foreign and girly to sing this.
yeah, according to the prounciation of Gaighlig the "ea" is blurreed into an eh like in "met" and the "bh" is pronounced like a "v" (at the beginning of a word)
yeah.. i'm starting to learn gaidhlig, and yes fyer is the anglicised pronunciation of the word "fear" in gaidhlig, i'm not very good at pronouncing words but there isn't much about it on the internet. fyehr is probably more right :P.
Still, this woman is shit at singing, and even worse at reading.
Gaelic letter=sound at start of word+sound/sounds elswhere in word x=guturral fricative (as in Loch) all vowels can be lengthened with a ` (grave accent)
Fuaimreagan (Vowels)
a=a/ah
ao=say "oo" with the lips in an "ee" position, like French tu and German ümlaut
Ok, that was all from my Scottish Gaelic textbook. As a personal note, it may be different with the dialect you're learning, but none of the Gaelic I've heard was very precise with it's treatment of vowels. In the diphthongs, one of the vowels is usually neglected (esp if it's an i or e that is mutating a consonant)
I'm pretty pathetic at reading scottish gaidhlig, but Maclomhair would be: Mahk-om-ihr, but i'm probably wrong. Wheres the e sound coming from by the way, because the e english alphabet sound usually comes from an e with a line or something above it 0_0.
Fear - Fyer
Sealtuinn - Shaltyuin
Thanks for helping me though because i can't find anything on reading gaidhlig sentences. I'm pretty sure that my pronunciation is accurate to some extent, it doesn't make my accent stick out like those, :s.
Look at my comment on pronunciation at mh and bh. Mac Ìomhair is the Gaelic form of the surnames MacIver, McIver, and (to a slightly lesser extent) McKeever, Ìomhair is the Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Ivarr. Any time you see io, and esp. ìo its pronounced ee (which is a lay equivalent to ē, and btw, the line above the e is called a macron, I was just too lazy at the time to open Word, make an ē, copy and paste), Im not sure why, that's just how I've always heard it.
lol, both oi and io should be pronounced that way whetherthere is a grave accent (ie backwards apostrophe thingy, grave is pronounced grahv like "grovel") over the i or not, the only time it's diff is when the grave is over the o, which then makes the o be pronounced and the i ignored
as I understand it, it's spelled fhear or I would have found this much earlier <<<obsessive.... I love how you did your own take on this song...the fluctuations and accent in your song are absolutely perfect..I love how airy your voice is...Its like listening to a dream... Please tell me this isn't the only celtic song you do...oh and I agree with larcebus...record and send to transatlantic records...They'll scope you up...just remember to send me tickets to your first concert ^_^
Madam, you should EAGERLY get a better microphone, put this - a' capella, as is, on a CD and send it to Transatlantic Records. That's some wonderful work!
This song reminds me of what my mother sang when I was a child. Marvelous! Found in this song the extraordinary beauty of the Gael women's voices... the most beautiful voices in the world!
yup it was writen in about the 1800s i think iam not sure but its about a man called mcrea who went out fishing never to return and his future wife sits and waits him on the hill tops
This reminds me of a wet saturday morning when waking from an uncomfortable nights sleep in the the ruins of Tomas O;Crithins place on An Blascoad Mor to the sound of the melodian being played by a fluent Gaelic speaking Frauline with whom I shared a more comfortable wet' satyrday night.
Thats beautiful. You should post more, I could listen to you forever. Other than your sweet voice, I particularily love that it is a traditional peice and includes an old old language that I was never taught. You are wonderful, never stop singing.
Well done! I was captivated.
kingsdaughter2011 1 week ago
Gorgeous women with most beautiful voice! RM
1RichMorrison 1 month ago
Lovely voice but it's 'heer/feer a wata' not fear a bhata how english speakers would pronounce it (:
AyeYirMa 2 months ago
@AyeYirMa no it's fear a vat(h)a not wata, BH in gaelic is pronounced a soft 'v' as in violin
69soulful 6 days ago
@69soulful I was wrong, in scottish gaelic bh is always a bh but in Irish it's either a W sound or a V sound depending on the vowel after wards. I speak and study irish, not scots gaelic that why I got confused :)
AyeYirMa 6 days ago
You have such a beautiful voice :)
Dedicated222Duty 2 months ago
Fighting back tears here, thank you.
hadland6a 5 months ago
Fair to you whoever u r.Class
billyhunchback 5 months ago
My aural journeys have led me all over the world, and many times to the lands of the Gaels, but I had never heard this song before. I am very pleased to have heard it for the first time through your lovely voice! Thank you.
HungryEars 6 months ago
Wonderfull,dear.....not that i understood,but..i still like'd it,Serb's simplz like Celt's and that's that....
dernhelmrs 6 months ago
WOW!
You have rendered me speechless...
83jwilson 7 months ago
Lassie Lassie, you could bring a tear to a stone. If I close my eyes I can see Gairloch Bay, and feel the mist on my face. When singing a Gaelic song try adding a bit rebellion to your heart. Remember we are a people who sing about how much we miss home while sittiong infront of our fire. Oh and each area has an accent in the Gaelic there is no one pronounciation. When sung to a Gael they will hear the beauty and love you.
ScottishShorts 7 months ago 4
@ScottishShorts Thank you so much.
artofvoice 7 months ago
its pronounced vata not bata :D haha :D
MsSerafinism 9 months ago
Couldn't find you for a minute. I was worried you took your music down... still calming my heart from panic.
wingman0736 9 months ago
my favourite song !!!! and ur voice is medic for the ears !!
Rule Ireland
MsLars1234 10 months ago
Oh man..........Beautifully sung and what a beautiful singer....those eyes!!!! AWESOME!!!
messeyehere 10 months ago
Hi this just brought weee tear to the eye. hi, am scottish, very beautiful
nikkiepops 10 months ago
@hexcane Actually that was a bit harsh, i didn't really mean that so sorry!!! But she has to sing in Scottish Gaelic and not in English! There is no question about that and no arguments!!!
Albainn1 11 months ago
@hexcane Hey suck it up hexcane!!! I'm sorry your father was such a dike and that you were born out of your mother's arsehole!!!
Albainn1 11 months ago
Beautiful
klamtask 11 months ago
She may be bonnie but she's murdering this Scottish Gaelic song!! You never sing a traditional Scots Gaelic song with English words. Maybe Irish Gaels are a bit more lenient about using English words for their Gaelic songs but us Scottish Gaels are not!! Totally and utterly against it!! So start Gaelicising these bastardising words!!!
Albainn1 11 months ago
@hexcane Aye and you've got small minded syndrome!! I love reading shite like this from people who don't have a clue about the laws Scottish Gaelic culture, the linguistical pride and everything that goes with it!! You just want to get in her pants you perverted bastard, so stop thinkin with your wee willy and start expanding your wee brain and for Heaven's sake, start reading and understanding a bit more to Scots Gaelic culture before you wank off on these comments aye??!!
Albainn1 11 months ago
@Albainn1 lol... The girl is doing her best, though, in fairness. Lovely healing voice, but to do it truly in traditional style would need years of practice.
It's amusing though, to see modern "druids" tramping across the fields to get to a stone circle, and hear their accents, everything from English, French and German reciting english language prayers to Brigid and such.
In the end though, people go to the lands where their spirit takes them, and I respect that. Welcome.
emmetor 11 months ago
Very well done. Voice of an angel.
Pagan3163 11 months ago
Oops. Sorry for the double talk.
jplympton1 11 months ago
I've just now discovered this and I wish I had done so earlier. It's just beautiful. And the soft focus gives it a haunting sort of quality.
jplympton1 11 months ago
I've just now discovered this and I wish I had done so earlier. It's just beautiful. And the soft focus gives it a haunting sort of quality.
jplympton1 11 months ago
Wow, I'm from Ireland, Never heared this song so beautifully sung in me life, Ya a good singer.
bulb7 11 months ago
quit fighting with words,lads. just enjoy the uniting spirit of really good music.
Nachkomme 1 year ago 3
@Nachkomme Thanks :)
artofvoice 1 year ago
@Nachkomme praise the Lord.and Pass The Whiskey friend..hush with it and listen
CitizenZero00 11 months ago
@CitizenZero00 you're with it,bro! our maker gave all the good things to us.now it's our duty to use them right,ey?
Nachkomme 11 months ago
You only need a guitar and then it will be a masterpiece, well done
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TheCody11688 1 year ago
Music is great. I just cant get over your eyes. They will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you for the gift of sharing them with the world. Its a much more beautiful place for you having doing so.
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TheGd1314 1 year ago
Nah i'm sorry walkertongdee, you just don't know enough and you don't have the cultural experience to comment on something like this. You never sing a Scottish Gaelic song with English translated words!! Its an insult and your tainting the language by its former suppressor!!! Its not done and you don't do it, full stop!!!!
Albainn1 1 year ago
No, i'm not being overly harsh and yes it is an insult to the Gaelic language to sing a 'Gaelic' song with English words! You just don't do it! Its like wearing a kilt with an English or British flag on it! Its a discrace and would never be done!! I'm a native speaker of Scottish Gaelic so i would know about it and MeatRind doesn't have a clue and is probably ponsing around her kitchen in a saggy bra and sweaty underwear right now cooking English muffins!!!
Albainn1 1 year ago
@Albainn1 Lighten up, if all people think like you the music and literature that changes the world would never be apreciated by people who speak the hundreds of languages worldwide. This world will never know and be united as one people apreciating other cultures, there is no reason why we cant have both...
walkertongdee 1 year ago
Beautiful voice, and a beautiful girl. Love your videos.
ianmac64 1 year ago
Some of these criticisms seem overly harsh. This is quite beautifully sung in my humble opinion, and those of you who think that it is an unforgivable offense to translate gaelic into english, I suggest you go back to what ever misbegotten and backwater hill you came from and continue to traipse about in your kilt, screaming bloody murder at the English. At least we wont have to hear your Philistine opinions.
MeatRind 1 year ago
thats a bit bit harsh, even for a Scottish person, what ever problem you may have with her wording you can't say she hasn't a fine voice. build a bridge buddy its not all doom and gloom......
thedagracky 1 year ago
wow you have a voice of an angle come on the irish
OGsmokedoggeire 1 year ago
Fine fellow! And yet pretty woman!
Assadan4 1 year ago
Learn the Gaelic words you ridiculous fool! Its such an instult to the Scottish Gaels to sing a 'Gaelic' song with English words! You just don't do it, you never translate a Gaelic song to English, you sing it in Gaelic!!
She's a crap singer too, she's all over the joint, its like listening to a hipogryff moaning for its mother's breast while taking a shite!!
Albainn1 1 year ago
All you idiots writing on here! This is a Scottish song, its not Irish at all! Its a Scottish Gaelic song and a world renowned one at that!!
Albainn1 1 year ago
voice of an angel
scottdrakko 1 year ago
awesome
vxd4 1 year ago 2
The moust beyoutefull voice and the most beyoutefull eyes i ever see! ! Keep the good work ,cheers :)
Jackthelong 1 year ago
Beautiful voice...
Greetings from Macedonia
uvceto 1 year ago
Beautiful! I'm studyng gaelic.
Do you are Irish?
I was in Ireland this year and I love!
Congratulations. Beautiful voice! Póg, slán.
tecladistamarcelo 1 year ago
Usáid tú go maith do ghlór.
designtoexpire 1 year ago
Wonderful Voice.
dansuehath 1 year ago
awesome
rudejude1000 1 year ago
A good rendition of an old West Highland Gaelic song :-) Check out this version .. watch?v=p1y7ESOxxDc&feature=related
bloobear1 1 year ago
what a beautiful voice
vxd4 1 year ago
beautiful voice... My grans used to sing and speak to me in Gaelic..... I close my eyes and hear your voice deep in my soul...... Keep singing We hear you in Canada
MrJunior081 1 year ago
you have such a beautiful voice.... Gaelic is the language my grans sang and spoke to me..... I could just close my eyes and feel your voice deeply in my soul..... Keep singing ...... We here you in Canada
MrJunior081 1 year ago
What a wonderful video? You have a beautiful voice.
I'm American with a Greek father and an Irish mother. My Irish grandma used to sing something like this with my sister when I was a child.
No idea what she was singing I would just listen from the stairs and enjoy . Thanks
Tim
Kosta63 1 year ago
becoem a singer ffs !
ipolee 1 year ago
beautiful !! x
apple0708 1 year ago
well done, well done. you have a lovely (and adequately ghostly) voice. i took a shot at this one myself, but i don't have the timbre for it. cheers!
spiegelhaus 1 year ago
Pretty song and pretty girl with incredible eyes!
getgoth 1 year ago
Fairies sing like you ... congratulations
TheMajiolnir 1 year ago
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it just reminds me of a crowded pub in ireland, and in the corner the best looking woman in the pub would start singing, then the people stop talking, and if even for 3 minutes no matter whats on your mind, it just does'nt matter anymore, two songs you may like 1(the parting glass)2(red is the rose), anyway keep it up kido.....
thedagracky 1 year ago
it just reminds me of a crowded pub in ireland, and in the corner the best looking woman in the pub would start singing, then the people stop talking, and if even for 3 minutes no matter whats on your mind, it just does'nt matter anymore, two songs you may like 1(the parting glass)2(red is the rose), anyway keep it up kido.....
thedagracky 1 year ago
since i first seen this video, i have also viewed all the other ones you have posted, but this is unreal, by far my favourite, im an irish man so maybe im too much on one side, but seriously you could create world peace with that voice, and looks, a true cailin...........
thedagracky 1 year ago 5
@thedagracky Wow, thank you so much, I'm glad I have an Irish lad's approval.
artofvoice 1 year ago
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@artofvoice
You do realise this is a Scottish song?! Its not Irish at all! Its a Scottish Gaelic song!
Albainn1 1 year ago
@artofvoice you blew me away with that fine voice of yours girl fair play keep it up
OGsmokedoggeire 1 year ago
@artofvoice You have another one very much approving here. I've listened to this video countless times.
PhelimEstranesque 1 year ago
@thedagracky yeah..another Irish..my opinion is already spoke..*pretty non-irish girl and all..* but yeah..i listen to this song whenever i've the chance.Sing for Us more..Please?
SunDown419 1 year ago
@thedagracky Check this vrsion out of Fear a Batha .. for me one of the best versions
watch?v=p1y7ESOxxDc&feature=related
bloobear1 1 year ago
@thedagracky
She's shite and so are your ears!! Its a Scottish song first of all and its not Irish at all!! Second, learn the Gaelic words you fool!! What an insult to hear a Gaelic song sung with English words!! What an insult to Gaelic song!!! Stupid cow!!
Albainn1 1 year ago
@thedagracky Nah Irish man, your being too naive and pervish at the same time!! I'd keep well out of this if i were you! Her voice is shite and so is the translation!! You don't sing a Scottish "Gaelic" song with "English" words!! Its a discrace! Surely you'd know that coming from Ireland but maybe your one of those Anglicised bunch!! Very sad, and i'd watch out, she's probably quite a bit younger than you!!
Albainn1 1 year ago
@thedagracky
indeed, a beautiful voice!
Aframus 1 year ago
absolutely beautiful, unreal fair play a girleen....
thedagracky 1 year ago
Comhghairdeas! Tá sé go hálainn! Ina theannta sin, tá guth álainn ...
niubf 1 year ago
the voice is beautiful,the song is beautiful,and "even though she's not Irish" the singer is too..thank you for sharing your voice with us beautiful girl.
SunDown419 1 year ago
@SunDown419 Thanks :)
artofvoice 1 year ago
@SunDown419
You do realise that this is a Scottish song! Its not Irish at all! Its a Scottish Gaelic song!!
Albainn1 1 year ago
@Albainn1 my bad..i wasn't taught my blood..like many anymore..hard to adhere to what u don't know..long and short..this song tugs at threads with me,irish threads scottish threads,fuuuuck i dunno..but yeah.so i was wrong..
CitizenZero00 11 months ago
@CitizenZero00 oh..this is sunny.btw..yep
CitizenZero00 11 months ago
@SunDown419 Not Irish? That's OK, it's a Scottish song from the Hebrides.
gaspode18 1 year ago
@SunDown419 Its a traditional Scottish song you fucktard!! Typical Irish American arseholes, don't know the slight difference between Scottish and Irish!! Wouldn't even understand it through the colour of shit!!!
Albainn1 11 months ago
@Albainn1 Doesn't really matter what the differences are between Irish Gaels and Scottish Gaels, does it?
Both are not only pictish-gaelic people, but more than that, they are basically the same people, except for a dash of regional seasoning from invaders.
Irish singers regularly sing Scottish songs as native, and I know Scottish singers sing Irish songs as native. It's only the later songs written in English that become distinctive as being Scottish or Irish.
emmetor 11 months ago
@SunDown419 Hey its Scottish shit for brains!! I'm sorry your father was a dike and that you were born out of your mother's arsehole!!!
Albainn1 11 months ago
@SunDown419
What's Irish got to do with it !!!???? It's a SCOTTISH SONG!!!!!!!
katmandolino 9 months ago
@katmandolino so.
billyhunchback 5 months ago
Dang. Was hoping it'd be in Gaelic.
Cstrife234 1 year ago
Bonita voz. Una pena la calidad del video
JECSAGP 1 year ago
beautiful song and lovely face mam
ps90tacguy 1 year ago
Great voice
FireMan1240 1 year ago
It's the annual celebration of the Gaelic language in Scotland - competitions in recitation, song and instrument.
piperbob2 1 year ago
Fear a Bhata is pronounced 'Far ah Wata' and it means 'The Man Of the Stick'. He walked with a stick because he was 'dall' or 'blind', as so many travelling poets and harpists in Ireland were during the Classical period. This is not a song about a boatman. Blind folk usually stay out of the water........
hollyboo21 1 year ago
I love it, shame for the video quality.
I'm sure you would get so many more views cause thats a great soothing voice you have there.
:)
ItsBalderDasH 1 year ago
praise god! the ancient days are fast approaching
maxxxem1 1 year ago 2
HEy, you're fantastic!
zarskoeselo 1 year ago
Love it!
I actually like your cover more than original ^^
Lorkind90 1 year ago
What can I say...WOW. Now I like Gaelic songs more :)
TheStreetbob 1 year ago
Hi JLH, the only part of the "lowlands" where Gaelic was not spoken was a small part of the lothians and borders!
neilly71 1 year ago
Delicious
IamTripleA 1 year ago
dang that's nice
kvnmcwebn 2 years ago
BEAUTIFUL
lickmahaggis 2 years ago
u have a beautiful voice do u have a cd album?
Jackazz67 2 years ago
To all, there are different dialects of the gaelic.
CenturyGamer.. please learn another , language. In MY culture, the culture of the north, the Gale. We don't talk to people like you or about people the vile profanic way you do. We are educated, well read, and ALL of us speak at least 2 languages fluently and do not wish to be associated with the filthy ignorance you display.
ScottishShorts 2 years ago
@ScottishShorts right ye are ya eejit, " the gale " lol
Alex1971P 2 years ago
What a voice! Persue that dream with your voice you will go the path that we all only can dream of! Was in Tain last summer and on Mull. Going back this year, can't wait.
deeteenh 2 years ago
loveley, a voice like a soft breeze, ta si go maight
unibomber63 2 years ago
ehem.. marry me! XD
latiz 2 years ago
Wonderful
FerghusClydelover 2 years ago
Ms Matheson I believe is from Lewis, or Harris I canna mind. Different areas have differrent accnts
ScottishShorts 2 years ago
I'm fairly certain that Karen Matheson is from Taynuilt in Argyll?
NorthLimitation 2 years ago
you have a beautiful voice. If you want it you should pursue a singing career. Good luck.
Dylan33James 2 years ago
Mo cheol tu.
draoi99 2 years ago
i like your voice is, warm, and with feeling :)
Orlando87mil 2 years ago
Beautiful song! and a beautiful voice too! 5*
NRamirezCR 2 years ago
You are incredible.
Keep up your work, for our sake!
wterry00 2 years ago
FH is silent in the choruses, I think (?). I am sure that in KAREN MATHESON's rendition, with Capercaillie at the Fruitmarket tn Glasgow (Feb. 2009)(available on YouTube), that she sings ... EER UH VAATA . Fh is often silent in Scotttish Gaelic, no??
bouncyhavana 2 years ago 2
Yes.
(h)eer uh vaaa(h)ta - very important or it sounds a bit silly to the gaelic speaker.
but lovely voice.
sharnomac 2 years ago
Chan eil cuihmne agam de an t-ainm a th'air. I cant remember what its called grammatically, maybe vocoative case, basically because she is speaking directly to the boatman fear a' bhata becomes fhir a' bhata. This is normal in Gàidhlig, for instance when speaking to seumas it becomes a' sheumais or mairead - a' mhairead. Hope that helped!
neilly71 2 years ago
I love this...well done
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TorDruid 2 years ago
Haunting. 5*s, lovely.
LordInksworth 2 years ago 6
What a beautiful voice, what a beautiful young lady, I hope you pursue a formal singing career. You will go far.
WanderingGeo 2 years ago 4
Aye, very nice. However, you need training for the Gaelic pronunciation : 'Fhir a' bhàta is pronounced, roughly, "ith uh vahh-tuh".
Lughaidh2 2 years ago 2
I don't understand a freaking word of Scottish Gaelic... A bit Irish Gaelic... But one thing I know is that you are a beautiful lass... and sings lovely...
Padraigcoelfir 2 years ago
lol, only a few words can be understood universally, depending on which dialect of each is in question, it's no great wonder, after all, they usually don't even roll their "r"s in Irish anymore.
sutmae1 2 years ago 2
True, mostly because of the British neighbour who don't roll "r's" at all. I am also a french speaker and in Canada the R's are even in french less and less rolled or We say "le R craché" ( the spitted R) like in France. It sounds like if you have a hair in the throat and want to spit it out. I learn Irish Gaelic mostly on my own. When I want to practice I go to the pub downtown. We still have Scottish Gaelic speaker in Nova-Scotia's Cap-Breton and New-Foundland. Some in Montreal of course.
Padraigcoelfir 2 years ago 2
I Would fall in love for such a beatifl woman with so sweet voice.........
Hwitwulf 2 years ago
Everybody says your good but the gaelic parts are fucked up.
First lets get this straight, fear a'bhata sounds like this: Fyar a vatuh, if your going to attempt to sing something with gaelic literature in areas. Thats if its scottish gaelic your trying to sing. Pish, you sound too foreign and girly to sing this.
CenturyGamer 2 years ago
yeah, according to the prounciation of Gaighlig the "ea" is blurreed into an eh like in "met" and the "bh" is pronounced like a "v" (at the beginning of a word)
sutmae1 2 years ago
yeah.. i'm starting to learn gaidhlig, and yes fyer is the anglicised pronunciation of the word "fear" in gaidhlig, i'm not very good at pronouncing words but there isn't much about it on the internet. fyehr is probably more right :P.
Still, this woman is shit at singing, and even worse at reading.
CenturyGamer 2 years ago
Key:
Gaelic letter=sound at start of word+sound/sounds elswhere in word x=guturral fricative (as in Loch) all vowels can be lengthened with a ` (grave accent)
Fuaimreagan (Vowels)
a=a/ah
ao=say "oo" with the lips in an "ee" position, like French tu and German ümlaut
e=e/ey
i=i/ee
o=ah/oh
u=oo
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sutmae1 2 years ago
n=n
p=p+hp(aspirated)
ph=f
r=rolled
s=s
sh=h
t=t+ht(aspirated)
th=h
*Gh and Dh are silent except when both preceded and followed by the letter a, it then makes the barest of x(voiced) sounds
sutmae1 2 years ago
Connragan caola (slender consonants=next to i or e)
d=j
dh=y
g=gy+k
gh=y
l=ll(long l)
n=nn(long n)
s=sh
t=ch
j, k, q, v, w, x, y, z don't exist in Gaelic
sutmae1 2 years ago
Ok, that was all from my Scottish Gaelic textbook. As a personal note, it may be different with the dialect you're learning, but none of the Gaelic I've heard was very precise with it's treatment of vowels. In the diphthongs, one of the vowels is usually neglected (esp if it's an i or e that is mutating a consonant)
for example: Ciamar=ki'mar
Fear=fer (no palatal glide)
sealtuinn=shal'tinn
MacIomhair=Maxk-ee-v(uh)r
I hope you find this helpful
sutmae1 2 years ago
I'm pretty pathetic at reading scottish gaidhlig, but Maclomhair would be: Mahk-om-ihr, but i'm probably wrong. Wheres the e sound coming from by the way, because the e english alphabet sound usually comes from an e with a line or something above it 0_0.
Fear - Fyer
Sealtuinn - Shaltyuin
Thanks for helping me though because i can't find anything on reading gaidhlig sentences. I'm pretty sure that my pronunciation is accurate to some extent, it doesn't make my accent stick out like those, :s.
CenturyGamer 2 years ago
Look at my comment on pronunciation at mh and bh. Mac Ìomhair is the Gaelic form of the surnames MacIver, McIver, and (to a slightly lesser extent) McKeever, Ìomhair is the Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Ivarr. Any time you see io, and esp. ìo its pronounced ee (which is a lay equivalent to ē, and btw, the line above the e is called a macron, I was just too lazy at the time to open Word, make an ē, copy and paste), Im not sure why, that's just how I've always heard it.
sutmae1 2 years ago
Now, if you put that little thing over the I i would have been able to pronounce it :P
CenturyGamer 2 years ago
lol, both oi and io should be pronounced that way whetherthere is a grave accent (ie backwards apostrophe thingy, grave is pronounced grahv like "grovel") over the i or not, the only time it's diff is when the grave is over the o, which then makes the o be pronounced and the i ignored
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RKHageman 2 years ago
Your voice is special. Move forward so that it can be more widely heard by others. Good luck! Take courage.
norrisonthespot 2 years ago
as I understand it, it's spelled fhear or I would have found this much earlier <<<obsessive.... I love how you did your own take on this song...the fluctuations and accent in your song are absolutely perfect..I love how airy your voice is...Its like listening to a dream... Please tell me this isn't the only celtic song you do...oh and I agree with larcebus...record and send to transatlantic records...They'll scope you up...just remember to send me tickets to your first concert ^_^
TheTobyOne 2 years ago
Madam, you should EAGERLY get a better microphone, put this - a' capella, as is, on a CD and send it to Transatlantic Records. That's some wonderful work!
larcebus 2 years ago
What a lovely voice - you should enter the MOD.
MrRiskyman 2 years ago
what is that
artofvoice 2 years ago
you've got a nice voice lady... well done :)
bogdancomm 2 years ago
Níor chuala mé riamh an amhrán seo. Go raibh míle maith agat a bean uasal.
Do you have the lyrics handy? If not, I suppose I'll 'google' it.
jimbobeire 2 years ago
Preciosa canción y preciosa intérprete.
checkpol 2 years ago
What a lovely voice - I usually pass on covers but she captured this immediately.....
carole7777 2 years ago 3
thanks :)
artofvoice 2 years ago
Simply beautiful
14377933 2 years ago
Beautiful, fantastic beautiful...could be a tad slower though?
meandmymandola 2 years ago
Lovely! Moran taing!
MartinaBC1963 2 years ago
This song reminds me of what my mother sang when I was a child. Marvelous! Found in this song the extraordinary beauty of the Gael women's voices... the most beautiful voices in the world!
Elfgris 2 years ago 3
Beautifully done,you got a wonderfull voice.
EDtheIslander 2 years ago 3
This song allways tugs at my heart and I`ve never heard it sung better. Do more traditional please, and keep it gaelic
whirrier 2 years ago 2
beautiful is this scots?
logan1776 2 years ago 3
yup it was writen in about the 1800s i think iam not sure but its about a man called mcrea who went out fishing never to return and his future wife sits and waits him on the hill tops
tickle989 2 years ago
go raibh maith agut
logan1776 2 years ago 2
no probs
Slàinte mhor a h-uile là a chi 's nach fhaic
tickle989 2 years ago 2
i only understood slainte hahah wish could learn gaelic... this is a lovely song
Steph9737 2 years ago
Tapadh leat - just lovely..
HeartSong42 2 years ago 2
Tapadh leat - that was lovely..would love to learn that..
HeartSong42 2 years ago
Fantastic. Thank you.
turimandala 2 years ago
That was beautiful, I have not heard this song before but your voice is so lovely and you sing it very well without need of accompaniment.
Axitutl60 2 years ago 3
Beautiful
dercarsus 2 years ago
That was nice. Well sung!
eanraigros 2 years ago
This reminds me of a wet saturday morning when waking from an uncomfortable nights sleep in the the ruins of Tomas O;Crithins place on An Blascoad Mor to the sound of the melodian being played by a fluent Gaelic speaking Frauline with whom I shared a more comfortable wet' satyrday night.
HAPPYTHELEAF 2 years ago
Thats beautiful. You should post more, I could listen to you forever. Other than your sweet voice, I particularily love that it is a traditional peice and includes an old old language that I was never taught. You are wonderful, never stop singing.
singularitygirl 2 years ago
amazing........ and a very beatautiful girl
castleknockb 2 years ago
Wow.... Amazing... Very well sung! =)
agpleez 2 years ago
beautiful!!
pedrolobo25 2 years ago
great voice and beautiful girl, greetings fron Venice, Italy
EFODERFIX 2 years ago
Great voice, amazing, even with low quality registration. Good job!
dimadima91 2 years ago
Great Voice !!
Thanks
JaiMaJames 2 years ago