Ho Ro Mo Nighean Donn Bhoidheach

This is a lovely song they sing in Gaelic, the group is called The Rankin Family. the title of the song in english is, Nut Brown Maiden.

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[colmich959]

Yes the song in english is called Nut Brown Maiden if you do a google search for lyrics. you will find them no problem.

[kjell240]

I love this song,love from Norway

[thewindthatshakesbar]

hey! I play this on the great highland bagpipes! never heared it like this before! very nice

[TheSharelife]

Cape Bretoner - true a caper will always say their from cape breton...never from Nova Scotia.. I should know I am a caper

[twillick]

@young95 I bought an old book (Roycroft) titled Love Ballads of the 16th Century. In it was a tune called The Nut Brown Maid. It scans perfectly (except no chorus) to a tune called Star of the County Down. Can you imagine how many tunes and altered lyrics being played today that more than likely are from hundreds of years ago. Pretty neat.

[bb3ca201]

@young95

With great anticipation, I just looked it up on am Baile. If you search "Donald MacRae" on Youtube, you'll find this song -- sung with the exact same Gaelic verses as are written in the Am Baile text (except verses four and five from the book; the Rankins sing verse 5 and Donald sings one of the verses that the Rankins do). Great song...a joy to discover the text...tapadh leibh

[young95]

@bb3ca201 I just came across an interesting "find". The website Am Baile dot org has a text written in 1888 called "The Songs and Hymns of the Scottish Highlands", and this is the first song in section 2. What is especially interesting about it is the sheet music has six verses in both Gaelic and English, and not one of them is what we "generally" associate with this song. It also shows it to be 2/2, but it doesn't call out an actual tempo. Regardless of preferences, this book is a treasure.

[RubyHazeChick]

From the North Country album, track 6 from 1993

[Athleticsfan958]

Mary and Frances Black sing a nice version of this too.

[Angus01ful]

@caperaircadet NO NO .not getting cocky .just being crazy...I understand that ..Well they can say either I guess.

[caperaircadet]

@Angus01ful no need to get cocky. all I meant was, if you ask a Cape Bretoner where they're from, they won't say Nova Scotia, they'll say Cape Breton.