Ailein Duinn [English translation]

I am in great sorrow

early in the morning when I rise

Chorus:

O hi I would travel1with you.

Hi ri vo ho ru vi

Hi ri vo no rin yo

Brown2 Ailein3,o hi I would travel with you.

If the sand is your pillow

If the seaweed is your bed

Chorus

If the fish is your white candles

If seals are your vigil keepers

Chorus

I would drink, regardless of the opinion of others,

of your heart's blood after your drowning.

Chorus

1. possibly a metaphor for "die"2. can brown hair-haired or with a complexion neither pale nor dark3. This is the vocative form of the man's name, Ailean, which corresponds to English Alan