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  • Beautifully played. Lovely!

  • Very nice.

  • Tà si iontach cosùil léis Eithne (Enya), nach bhfuil ? 

  • Beautiful, tá sé go hálainn!! :-) One question.. What are the chords of the left hand? I need to know them for playing this tune in Irish class.. I found some chords, but yours are more beautiful! ^_^

  • We (ourselves) brought summer with us. It's the traditional song for booleying - the practice of transhumance, when the young girls and boys brought the cattle up to the sweet mountain pastures in early summer and camped out in quickly-made bothies, singing and dancing by campfires and generally having a good time.

    This was the song sung to greet Elizabeth Stuart's representative when he came to Ireland in the 16th century.

  • samhradh means "summer" and it also means "summer garland of mayflowers", so the title of the song has 2 meanings:

    "We have brought the summer with us"

    or

    "We have brought the garland of mayflowers with us"

  • Thank you for posting that! Beautiful!

  • beautiful

  • Thank you. The tune itself suggests that the lyrics just HAVE to be beautiful too. I would be very interested to hear them if you have them. It adds dynamics to playing it if you can incorporate the words and sentiment behind them.

  • There is a collection of Gaelic songs called" Singing Irish Gaelic" by Mary McLaughlin. Included are sheets and other things. I don´t know the other songs but surely there are some more very beautiful ones included. Take care mate and thank you for the music. Thanks for your help in finding a harp since Germans are not known as passionated harp players and it´s difficult to find a shop selling harps around here at all. Thanks a lot!!!

  • So, so beutiful. I'll try to play it in the whistle.

    Thanks a lot for sharing it.

  • Ah, yes. I forgot. Maith thú!  (Well done!)

    ~~Megan

  • What a super title for a lovely song. Thank you for that.

  • "I would be very interested if anyone could translate this title of a beautiful air." -- faeryharper

    A VERY rough translation: "We have brought the summer with us." Or something close to that anyway. My command of the language is not where it ought to be, I'm afraid. Gabh mo leithsceal.

  • Gorgeous!

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