Eilean mo chridhe
'Eilean Mo Chridhe is a Scottish Gaelic folk song written during the First World War. The composer was John Maclean of Glendale, Skye.
Lyrics
Scottish Gaelic
- Refrain
- 'S truagh nach robh mis' ann an Eilean Mo Chrìdh'
- Eilean mo ghràidh far an dh'àraicheadh mi,
- 'S truagh nach robh mis' ann an Eilean mo Chridh',
- Eilean nam fuar-bheann àrda.
- Verses
- Ruithinn-se cas-ruisg-t air monadh is fraoch
- Nam faighinn-se thairis air aiseag a chaoil,
- Rachainn le cabhag gu clachan mo ghaoil,
- Do'n dachaidh 's an dh'fhuair mi m' àrach.
- 'S mis' a bhiodh sona nan robh mi an dràsd
- Ri taobh na cruaich-mhòna, air cnocan a tàmh;
- An ceò-geal bu bhoidhche a lùbadh 'sa snàmh
- 'S a tuiteam mo ghualain Blath-Bheinn.
- Dhùrachdainn fuireach le cuideachd mo ghràidh
- 'S a bhothan aig Uilleam aig tuinne na traigh;
- Gu'n éisd bhi òirnn tuile gach oidhche na là,
- Ach muir agus monadh a laimh rinn.
- Chì mi am Meall, agus chì mi an Sgòrr;
- Slinnean Churaing agus Binnean an Stòrr,
- Healabhal Bheag agus Healabhal Mhòr -
- Beul nan Tri-Allt is Geàrraidh.
English language
- Refrain
- O, would that I were in the Isle of my Heart,
- My dear island where I grew up;
- O, would that I were in the Isle of my Heart,
- Isle of the high cold mountains.
- Verses
- Barefoot I'd run over moorland and heather
- If I could cross over the ferry to Kyle,
- I would go in a hurry to the village I love
- To the home where I was raised.
- Content I would be if I were just now
- Beside the peat-stack on a hillock at rest
- The most beautiful mist, wreathing and swimming
- And falling o'er the shoulders of Blath-Bheinn
- My wish is to stay with the kin of my heart
- In William's wee bothy by the waves on the beach,
- Where forever we'd listen each night and each day
- With but moorland and sea beside us.
- I see the Meall and I see the Sgorr
- The side of Quirang and the hills of the Storr
- Little Helaval and Big Helaval
- The Three Streams delta and Gearraidh