"Eilean Mo Chridhe" is a Scottish Gaelic folk song written during the First World War. The composer was John 'Kaid' MacLean of Portree, Skye. The meaning of the title in English is "Island of my Heart". This song shares a melody with 'Westering Home'
Lyrics
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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.
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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
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