This is a different version of this song than I usually sing. Can any of you catch what they're singing before "gléasta" in the first verse? "Cailíní maiseacha ____ gléasta" (?)

GRMA,

Redwolf

Ahem . . . link?

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

Oh, details! You mean you can't read my mind?

Ahem...here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8JKyYjaz4g

Redwolf

I got part of it, but there's there's still a word missing.

"Cailíní maiseacha ___ geala gléasta"

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

Yeah...that's about where I'm faltering. "Bán"?

Redwolf

It sounds like "bán" to me too.

Cailíní maiseacha bán-gheala gléasta.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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GRMA!

Redwolf

Sin an rud a fhaghthar fosta nuair a chuartaíthear "thugamar féin an samhradh linn + gléasta" i nGoogle

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In the songbook I have, for the third line it has -
Cailíní maiseach go gealgáireach gléasta

Ceolta Gael 2 (Mánus Ó Baoill - Ossian/Musicroom) Do you not have a copy of that, Redwolf ?

I see that on Mudcat, they give another version by Pádraigín Ní Uachacháin and I also know of the version by her (late) sister Eithne (Bridgid's Kiss)

Cailíní maiseacha bángheala gléigeal

www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=53420

Is it not cailíní maisithe? That's both what I'm familiar with and what they're saying.