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Hò ra hù a nighean dubh, nighean donn...
Hì rì ri ò nighean donn bhòidheach...
Hò ra hù a nighean dubh, nighean donn...

[ 2 ]
Nighean donn a’bhroillich glé-ghil...
As do dhídh tha mise brònach...
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[ 3 ]
Nighean donn a' bhroillich shoillier...
Dheannain coinneamh riut Di-Dòmhnaich...
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[ 4 ]
Dheannain coinneamh riut ‘s an t-fhoghar...
Am an t-sabhail a bhi ‘ga bhòrdadh...
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[ 5 ]
Dheannain coinneamh riut ‘s an anmoch...
Ged ‘bhiodh càch a seanachas oirnn...
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[ 6 ]
Anns a’ mhadainn shéid an dùdach...
Bha’gar dùsgadh an taigh Seònaid...
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[ 7 ]
Mise seo a’ dol a Ghriannaig...
‘S mi gam riasladh aig na ròpan...
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[8 ]
Thusa bruidhinn ris a’ gruagaich...
Mis’ air bhàrr a’ chuain a’ seòladh...
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[ 9 ]
Thusa bruidhinn ris an nighean...
A thug gaol a cridhe dhomhsa...
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[ 10 ]
Ach ma dh’fhanas tu gu Bealltainn...
Chan fhaigh Caimbeulach tha beò thu...
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[ 11 ]
Chan fhaigh Caimbeulach fon ghréin thu...
Chan fhaigh Mac ‘Illean nas mòth’, thu...
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[ 12 ]
Chan fhaigh Mac ‘Illean nas mòth’, thu...
‘S ann a ní mi fhín do phòsadh...
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[ Chorus ]
Hò ra hù the black-haired girl, brown-haired girl...
Hì rì ri ò nighean donn bhòidheach...
Hò ra hù a nighean dubh, nighean donn...

[ 2 ]
Brown-haired girl with the pure bright breast...
You make me so sorrowful.
[Chorus]

[ 3 ]
Brown-haired girl with the luminous breast...
I will meet with you on Sunday...
[Chorus]

[ 4 ]
I will meet you when the harvest...
is stored in the hold (stable?)...
[Chorus]

[ 5 ]
I will meet you in the evening...
Though the rest will talk about us...
[Chorus]

[ 6 ]
At the trumpetting of the morn...
(...will waken the house of Janet?)...
[Chorus]

[ 7 ]
I'm here at the dawn...
And me at my coiling of ropes...
[Chorus]

[8 ]
I'm talking to you my young maiden...
Me at the tiller sailing the sea...
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[ 9 ]
I'm talking to you my young maiden...
(__________________________)...
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[ 10 ]
But if you _______ 'til Beltaine...
You won't be with a Campbell...
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[ 11 ]
You won't be with any Campbell under the sun...
You won't be with an unworthy MacIllean...
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[ 12 ]
You won't be with an unworthy MacIllean...
And no one but myself will you marry...
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