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Ar a Dhul go Baile Átha Cliath Domh

from No Fixed Abode by TRÚ

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lyrics

Ar a dhul go Báile Átha Cliath domh,
an chéad lá den tseachtain
Casadh cailín óg domh
Dtug mé mor-chíon is taitneamh
D'fhiafair sí i nglór ciúin domh
"Cá gcónaíonn tú, a shearch-rúin?"
Is i dTuaifín atá mo lóistín,
Is m'áit chónaí le fada."

Céist agam féin ort
Ó's tú is deireanaí d'fhág a'bhalile
Cad é mar atá do chéile?
Nó an féidir go maireann?
Tá sí tinn tréith-lag
i bhfiabhras na leapa
agus mise le trí réithe
ag na liaibh a' mo chreachú

Cé'r mhiste duit féin í
Dá dtéideadh sí faoi thalamh?
Gheofá bean is spré léi
Dúiche shaor agus fearann
Bheadh airgead i do phócaí
agus ór buí le scapadh
agus Maighre an chúil ór-bhuí
le bheith a' cóiriú do leapa

Annir na ndual buí
ná hiarr thusa mo mhealladh
Ta muirnín lag ór orm
Is ní h-áil uaim á scapadh
Níl airgead i mo phócaí
Nó ór buí le scapadh
Nó aon cailín ór
le bheith ag cóiriú mo leapa





On my way to Dublin
On the first day of the week
I met a young girl
Who delighted my eye
Softly she asked,
"Where do you bide, my darling?"
"My lodgings are in Tuaifín,
It's been my home this long time."

"I've a question for you
Since you've lately left home
How is your wife,
Or could it be she's died?"
"She is sick and feeble
In bed with a fever
And me these nine months
Being fleeced by the doctors."

"Why should you care
If she were underground?
You'd get a dowried woman
With free estate and land,
You'd have money in your pockets
And yellow gold to squander
And a lovely young maiden
To smooth over your pillow.

"My beautiful fair one,
Don't try to allure me,
I've a weak young family
and I don't won't abandon them,
There will be no money in my pockets
Nor yellow gold to squander
Nor any young girl
To smooth over my pillow."

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from No Fixed Abode, released May 28, 2021

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The trú was a mythological trio of poet-musicians in ancient Ulster. They were revered throughout Ireland, some believing their songs and stories came to them from the future. Others maintained that the trú were possessed by spirits during performance. As such, they were considered gatekeepers to the Otherworld.

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