All Among the Barley<br>
Óró, 'Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile<br>
Pádraig Pearse<br>
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"Óró, 'Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile" is<br>
performed by Máirtín de Cógáin on his CD The False Start<br>
<br>
Notes: This Irish song is historically significant and often<br>
sung in Ireland. Pádraig Pearse was an instrumental figure in the Irish bid<br>
for independence in 1916. He was also responsible for the<br>
revitalization of the Irish language and culture in the almost<br>
completely Anglicized Irish society. He was executed by firing squad for his<br>
part in the Easter Rising on May 3, 1916.<br>
Gráinne Mhaol is Grace O' Malley, the sixteenth century<br>
pirate/patriot Chieftain of the Galway region of Ireland. In the song<br>
she's representative of the Irish diaspora coming home tofight for their<br>
country. Correct Irish reference to her is Gráinne Ní Mháille.<br>
Lyrics:<br>
Sé do bheatha a bhean ba léanmhar<br>
Ba é ár gcreach tú bheith i ngéibheann<br>
Do dhúiche bhreá i seilibh meirleach<br>
's tú díolta leis na galla!<br>
Curfá (chorus):<br>
Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile<br>
Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile<br>
Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile<br>
'Nois ar theacht an tsamhraidh.<br>
Tá Gráinne Mhaol ag teacht thar sáile;<br>
Óglaigh armtha léi mar gharda<br>
Gaeil iad féin is ní Frainc ná Spáinnigh;<br>
Is cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh.<br>
Curfá<br>
A bhuí le Rí na bhFeart go bhfeiceann;<br>
Muna mbíonn beo ina dheoidh ach seachtain,<br>
Gráinne Mhaol is míle gaiscíoch;<br>
Ag fógairt fáin ar Ghallaibh.<br>
Curfá<br>
Translation - from "The Collected Works of Padraic H.<br>
Pearse" (New York, 1917)<br>
'Se do bheatha, O woman that wast sorrowful,<br>
What grieved us was thy being in chains,<br>
Thy beautiful country in the possession of rogues,<br>
And thou sold to the Galls,<br>
Chorus:<br>
Oró, 'se do bheatha a bhaile,<br>
Oró, 'se do bheatha a bhaile,<br>
Oró, 'se do bheatha a bhaile,<br>
Now at summer's coming!<br>
Thanks to the God of miracles that we see,<br>
Altho' we live not a week thereafter,<br>
Gráinne Mhaol and a thousand heroes<br>
Proclaiming the scattering of the Galls!<br>
Chorus<br>
Gráinne Mhaol is coming from over the sea,<br>
The Fenians of Fál as a guard about her,<br>
Gaels they, and neither French nor Spaniard,<br>
And a rout upon the Galls!<br>
Chorus<br>