Cad É Sin Don Te Sin [English translation]

I went to the fair and sold my cow

For five pounds of change and a golden yellow guinea.

If I drink the money and give away the gold

Oh what is that to anyone to whom it doesn’t pertain?

If I drink the money and give away the gold

Oh what is that to anyone to whom it doesn’t pertain?

If I go to the branchy forest to collect berries or nuts

To take apples from the branches or to herd cattle

If I lie for an hour beneath trees to make myself comfortable

Oh what is that to anyone to whom it doesn’t pertain?

If I lie for an hour beneath trees to make myself comfortable

Oh what is that to anyone to whom it doesn’t pertain?

If I take myself to a night-time visit and dancing and fun

To a fair or races, and each gathering of the sort

If there are convivial people, and I am convivial with them

Oh what is that to anyone to whom it doesn’t pertain?

If there are convivial people, and I am convivial with them

Oh what is that to anyone to whom it doesn’t pertain?

People say that I am worthless and hopeless

Without goods, without profit, without stock (of cattle) or wealth

But if I am content with my little place to live in

Oh what is that to anyone to whom it doesn’t pertain?

But if I am content with my little place to live in

Oh what is that to anyone to whom it doesn’t pertain?