Celtic Woman Follow

Top 31 comments

• kat 0 points 2010-07-27 06:02

  akira i might be wrong but i think "siuil a run" means "walk my love" i dont know for sure

• kat 0 points 2010-07-27 05:55

  this song is so beatuiful. it better when you see live. i love celtic woman

• Akira 0 points 2010-02-21 19:39

  ok i have the official music with this song in it, but no one has bothered to translate the chorus and my research is coming up with zip. i would learn the language but i just need to know what this part means so when i sing it i will know what im singing... im using this song as an audition song and if someone asks me what it means i'd like to be informed... can someone please translate???

• Andrew 0 points 2009-10-06 04:59

  dude maev ur a freak dude, calm the fuck down no one really care about any the shit ur sayin. I just read all this and the only real asshole here is the dumbass thinkin they are all correct just because they know the lyrics. im from ireland I grew up there and you are seriously the biggest tool ive ever seen write on a internet post.

• Zara 0 points 2009-08-23 19:49

  I think the red petticoat part means that she will become a prostitute and do whatever it take to help her love while he's away at war.

• Marcia 0 points 2009-08-14 21:30

  To comment on Marjolein's question....

  I believe that a woman who had the "audacity" to have a red petticoat was considered a loose woman, or at least a woman who was against societal norms of the day. A "liberated" woman....

  :)

• jenevah 0 points 2009-02-10 20:57

  i love dis song and i am from d caribbean i need to get dis song i studied scotland and while searchin 4 scotish music i got dis song it was one of the best i hav listen to it 7times aredy 2 day

• jenevah 0 points 2009-02-10 20:53

  i love dis song and am from d caribbean i need to get dis song

• Samila 0 points 2008-11-18 18:37

  ok so can someone tell me where to get the better translation of the song???? O_o

• megHan 0 points 2008-11-10 22:34

  i think these are the correct lyrics
  they just dont have the fadas where they should be

  and how it's spelled, it all has to do with the region.
  like, color/colour

  my name in irish is either Mairéad or Maighread
  they're spelled differently, but pronounced the same:
  mar-ADE

  i really love this song.
  and i really love being irish.
  :D

• Niamh 0 points 2008-10-09 06:44

  Maev, you're a bugger for correction. You don't have to insult every person who offers a different opinion or observation; and in fact, maybe it will help people to understand the language better if they read it phonetically, eh? Listen, because you are wrong on so many aspects, you are putting yourselves in the fool's shoes. It's not about correction, it's about enjoying the music, and so what if these lyrics are wrong? Get off the internet and get a real life. If you spend all your days fighting people in comments on random lyrics pages, you make yourself look like a reclusive idiot who spends all of their time brooding over all the original vinyls they own and arguing with others about petty things like lyrics to a song.
  This wasn't about trying to educate anyone about the correct lyrics, because if it were, you would have posted a website that offered the real lyrics long ago. This was about you trying to boost your pathetic ego by putting others down with words you so pathetically typed ferociously into this stupid little comment box.
  Really, it's very discouraging the amount of disrespect people have today; and Maev, I figured that someone putting you into place respectively may help you put some perspective on the situation.

• Stevie 0 points 2008-07-07 03:53

  I love this song and I think that it is a very beautiful song! it's my favorite song off of that cd and like one poster below me said , I found out about Celtic Woman on tv when nothing else was on.

• Erin 0 points 2008-05-23 00:35

  It nice to have a translation, even if it is not completely correct Maev. I tried to find translations on the web and found nothing to help short of finding a professional translator. I don't have that kind of money. The petticoats are red because she is willing to become a prostitute of some sort, i believe. Red has been a sign of prostitutes for ages, so that might be it, trying to suffer through a time of need by doing anything that will put food on the table.

• Marjolein 0 points 2008-05-01 21:06

  Beautiful song.. There's only one thing I don't really get: why does she dye her petticoats red? To make it look like she's bleeding or something?

• emily 0 points 2007-12-08 11:01

  well being irish myself most of the words are right ^.^
  dont worry
  im glad you understood the slan...most lyrics got it totally wrong!!

  I love this group!!i found out about them when there was nothing on tv and now i cant stop listening to their music!!!=D

  thanks for the lyrics!!!!

  xXxXx

• Maev 0 points 2007-09-09 02:01

  Congratulations, Jonah, on being a smug, sarcastic idiot.

  I firmly believe that bettering yourself through education is a good thing. Apparently, you disagree. Interesting. Well, actually, it's not interesting. It's kind of sad, really.

• Jonah 0 points 2007-09-01 16:34

  Congratulations Maev, nobody cares what are you saying even if it is the most correct speech in the world xD. Just to much information for something that insignificant :D.
  I think the goal of the lyrics is not to learn gaelic... just sing it... isn't?
  Sure the authorities in gaelic language will thank you your intention but... relax man (or woman) you'll live longer ;)

• Maev 0 points 2007-08-06 04:26

  In other words, it is a question of phonetics and morphology rather than history.

• Maev 0 points 2007-08-06 04:21

  Close, Peter, and my congratulations on your quick yet insufficiant internet research. In fact, "Gone the Rainbow" is very familiar to me, as I remain an ardent fan of PP&M. However, as we all know, folk songs, particularly very old ones, almost always undergo some evolution along the course of time. What I am trying to get across is that the first recording of the version of "Siúil a Rún" performed by Celtic Woman is in fact on the "Dúlamán" album. "Gone the Rainbow" is not "Siúil a Rún" - it is an evolution of it, certainly, but they are not the same song.

• Peter 0 points 2007-08-03 18:35

  Maev, Clannad was not the first group to record a version of this traditional song - even Peter, Paul and Mary recorded a version of it in the early '60s, which they called "Gone the Rainbow". The song is a very old one, purportedly dating from the period of "Flight of the Wild Geese", when the Irish Jacobites left Ireland for exile in France under the terms of the Treaty of Limerick, October 3, 1691.

• Maev 0 points 2007-03-14 04:50

  Abel, wtf are you on about? You are making NO SENSE!

• Abel 0 points 2007-03-05 03:15

  Well, if you dont like the lyrics here, everyone who visits doesnt need to know it, so why say anything? This is a beautiful song, like many other Gaelic songs. If you know the words, then sing along. Siuil, Siuil, Siuil a run...... If you don't, then make up your own or something. Plain and simple. Iss guh day thoo avorneen slawn....

• Maev 0 points 2006-12-31 19:42

  Actually, these are the lyrics released by Clannad, the band who first recorded the song "Siúil a Rún" and released it in 1976 on their record "Dúlamán"-ALONG WITH PUBLISHED LYRICS. I have the original vinyl.

• Amelia 0 points 2006-12-30 18:42

  no these lyrics are wrong. there is a website that has the correct lyrics with the correct gailic spelling and if u listen to the cd u can write down how they pronounce the words

• Maev 0 points 2006-12-29 21:46

  The lyrics are correct.

• Gina 0 points 2006-12-28 21:29

  Its still a great song and a beautiful language.

• meghan 0 points 2006-12-24 19:53

  actuallly theese are the wrong lyrics most of them are right though

• Maev 0 points 2006-12-15 09:04

  Not true. I've found plent of sites with the correct translation. I'll even correct these ones.

• Philomena 0 points 2006-12-12 19:15

  Maev
  this is what you can find anywhere on the internet
  there's nothing wrong with the lrics here

• Maev 0 points 2006-09-16 20:08

  This is awful. Gaelic is a silky, delicate language, and even in your phonetic translation, you've BUTCHERED it beyond all recognition.

• Sageq 0 points 2006-09-13 21:09

  I love this song. I could listen to it all day.