Bríd Óg Ní Mháille
Amhrán na Seachtaine – Song of the Week
“Bríd Óg Ní Mháille”
This week’s Amhrán na Seachtaine is Bríd Óg Ní Mháille, a song in the Sean Nós or old-style tradition that tells the story of unrequited love.
In the first verse, the young lad tells how Bríd, who is so beautiful that hundreds of men have fallen in love with her, has left him brokenhearted. He describes her as being more beautiful than the moon over the ocean or the white blossoms on the blackthorn. He continues on, telling us he wants to get married and asks her to meet him the following Sunday. Unfortunately, he is left heartbroken as she marries another.
I’ve chosen two beautiful versions to share with you, one by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, and the second one by the Irish family group The Corrs. Both versions have lyrics you can sing along with.
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Bain taitneamh as! – Enjoy!
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
The Corrs
Bríd Óg Ní Mháille
Is a Bhríd Óg Ní Mháille
‘S tú d’fhág mo chroí cráite
‘S chuir tú arraingeacha
An bháis fríd cheartlár mo chroí
Tá na céadta fear i ngrá
Le d’éadan ciúin náireach
Is go dtug tú barr breáchtacht’
Ar Thír Oirghiall más fíor
Níl ní ar bith is áille
Ná’n ghealach os cionn a’ tsáile
Ná bláth bán na n-airne
Bíos ag fás ar an draighean
Ó siúd mar bíos mo ghrá-sa
Níos trilsí le breáchtacht
Béilín meala na háilleacht’
Nach ndearna riamh claon
Is buachaill deas óg mé
‘Tá triall chun mo phósta
‘S ní buan i bhfad beo mé
Mura bhfaighidh mé mo mhian
A chuisle is a stóirín
Déan réidh agus bí romhamsa
Cionn deireanach den Domhnach
Ar Bhóithrín Dhroim Sliabh
Is tuirseach ‘s brónach
A chaithimse an Domhnach
Mo hata ‘mo dhorn liom
‘S mé ag osnaíl go trom
‘S mé ag amharc ar na bóithre
‘Mbíonn mo ghrá-sa ag gabhail ann
‘S í ag fear eile pósta
Is gan í bheith liom
Oh Bríd Óg O’Malley
You have left my heart breaking
You’ve sent the death pangs
to the center of my heart
A hundred men are craving
For your shamefully quiet face
You’re the fairest of maidens
In Oriel for sure
Nothing is more beautiful
Than moonbeams over the ocean
Or the white sloe blossoms
That grow on the blackthorn
For my love
is more beautiful
That honey-lipped beauty
Who never said wrong
I’m a handsome young fellow
Who is thinking of wedlock
But my life will be shortened
If I don’t get my heart’s desire
My love and my darling
Prepare now to meet me
On next Sunday evening
On the road to Drum Slieve
‘Tis sadly and lonely
I pass the time on Sunday
My hat in my fist
And I sighing heavily
As I gaze upon the byways
That my true love walks over
Now she’s wed to another
And left me forlorn
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