Karan Casey - Bata Is Botar (The Stick And The Road) текст песни

O chaitheas-sa seal i measc na bponcan
Ag codailt amuigh fe chrann mo dhochais
Ag reabadh fallai a thog m'athair romham
Idir e is an doicheall i bhfuinneog a sul

(Chorus:)
'Sea thugadar go fial duinn a raibh acu le tabhairt
Bata is bothar is fonn abhaile
'Sea teir abhaile go h-ifreann
Is fan sa bhaile in Eirinn.

Is chuas ina dhiaidh sin go Londain groi
Mo dha laimh liom is me liom fein
Da mbeinnse cead bliain ag doras Sheain Bhui
Ni bhfaighinn bheith istigh i ngar da chroi

(Chorus)

Is bhios ag a' deireadh i ndeireadh an domhain
Ag lui beal faoi ibpoll an uaignis
Ag scriobadh na cre i dtrinse ro mhor
A bhi chomh cung le huaigh mo linbh

(Chorus)

Is bhios-sa la i dtir na ndall
Ag iarraidh didean o racht na farraige
Ni bhfuaireas-sa ann ach airgead ag meileach
Is fliuchadh mo bheil de mo dheora fein

(Chorus)

(Translation:)

OI spent a time in the land of the yanks
Sleeping out under the tree of my hope
Tearing down walls my father had built before me
Between himself and the window of suspicion of their eyes

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Yeah they gave us generously what they had to give
The stick and the road and the longing to go home
Yes go home to hell
And stay home in Ireland

And I went after that to greater London
My two hands hanging and me on my own
If I was a hundred years at the door of John Bull
I wouldn't get in close to his heart

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And I was in the end at the end of the world
Lying face down in the pool of loneliness
Scratching at the clay in a trench too wide
That was as narrow as the grave of my child

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And one day I went to the land of the blind
Looking for shelter from the rage of the sea
All I found there was the bleating of money
And the wetting of my mouth from my own tears

(Chorus)