Roisin Dubh, (Dark Rosaleen) Traditional Irish Song
3-3-08 As requested, here are the lyrics in English and in Irish. I only sang two of the Irish verses: O MY Dark Rosaleen, Do not sigh, do not weep! The priests are on the ocean green, They march along the deep. There ‘s wine from the royal Pope, Upon the ocean green; And Spanish ale shall give you hope, My Dark Rosaleen! My own Rosaleen! Shall glad your heart, shall give you hope, Shall give you health, and help, and hope, My Dark Rosaleen! Over hills, and thro’ dales, Have I roam’d for your sake; All yesterday I sail’d with sails On river and on lake. The Erne, at its highest flood, I dash’d across unseen, For there was lightning in my blood, My Dark Rosaleen! My own Rosaleen! O, there was lightning in my blood, Red lightning lighten’d thro’ my blood. My Dark Rosaleen! All day long, in unrest, To and fro, do I move. The very soul within my breast Is wasted for you, love! The heart in my bosom faints To think of you, my Queen, My life of life, my saint of saints, My Dark Rosaleen! My own Rosaleen! To hear your sweet and sad complaints, My life, my love, my saint of saints, My Dark Rosaleen! Woe and pain, pain and woe, Are my lot, night and noon, To see your bright face clouded so, Like to the mournful moon. But yet will I rear your throne Again in golden sheen; ‘Tis you shall reign, shall reign alone, My Dark Rosaleen! My own Rosaleen! ‘Tis you shall have the golden throne, ‘Tis you shall reign, and reign alone, My Dark Rosaleen! Over dews, over sands, Will I fly, for …
My you have a beautiful voice!
I see that you have the words posted. You don’t, by chance, have the Gaelic lyrics written out phonetically, that you could post?
Thanks for the recording!
I had to comment here as well (I´ve posted about ten others always saying how much I love your country
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I love Ireland! I wish to see you one day…
Our countries have a similar history and I have a great respect for you. Serbs were slaves to the Otomans for more than 500 years and we got our freedom back not allowing at any point our language, culture or religion to be changed or forbidden by the barbarous Turks.
You will be ONE country one day, too.
Greetings from Serbia!
There’s Brilliant and Fantastic but this if u dont mine me saying was
Incredible! Just BANG ON THE BUTTON hugs from Ireland Deborah xoxo.
This is beautiful. The history behind it also a wonderful thing… Thank you, MollysIrishEyes
Absolutely amazing…you have a gift, thank you for sharing it.
my name is roisin
I was really touched by your words! Even if I am not scottish I have a Celtic heart and love your country, your culture and your music. Cheers Scotland!
@melschoeny It’s an irish song, about Ireland yet your saying cheers scotland?
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A great version of this song.
It’s funny though, I’ve never seen the name Roisin translated into Rosaleen before… i’ve always just thought of it as…well…roisin. (if you get what i mean)
Not a big fan of Sean Nós signing, but like this very much.
The only thing i can say is Amazing beautiful Wow
Polish are arrogant, should we be greatful you have “a respect” for us, why would you not have respect? we don’t need to be vocal about ourselves, learn our ways and save your praise Mr Polish man
hi friend, how about writing a correct (complete) headline? with artist and song name so one can find this song? i only found it over the thumbnails on the right side of the screen. but anyone who tries to find the song by the title/or name (remember: youtube is partly a search engine!!!) will not find don´t write an angry reply, better write a correct headline for other fans
thanks, and in the name of nameless others,
friederich
/the name in the clip doesn´t really help
@edMstaunton hi man, take a lesson from an alien speaker: you mean “grateful” don´t you?
the way this female sings this song is terrible, so many squiggles around each note that you can hardly follow the real melody. we here call that “overartistic”, which means “ruined by too much effort”. i only recognized it from the headline. listen to the dubliners´version to know what i mean.
@panpiotr888 well, not quite.there are two important differeces:
1) there was a time when poland did not exist as a state, and
2) poland is the only state which exists/existed in two completely different areas.
you live now where once was east prussia and where once was poland is now russia.
so especially you should know and appreciate what it means to be dispelled. it is not only a polish misfortune
greetings friederich
(not a revanchist, so don´t try to discuss what i didn´t say)
How do you spell pedant
Amazing music… Simply amazing… ^_^
Faving it!
This girl is ruining this song. Listen to Eileen largeys version,no comparsion.
sorry, the ladies name is kathleen largey, Irelands greatest singer.
Your voice is Beautiful!
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Your voice is Beautiful!
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Dubh in Gaeilge is black not dark as said in description. It would be Black Rose.
Now if your wanting the word for dark it would be “dorcha”
Source? – It’s my mother tongue I can teach your own scholars Gaeilge.
– Pádraig O’hÁinle
@MrJoshuaPadraig
Róisín meaning “little rose”
Rós just means Rose.
Sláinte
- Pádraig O’hÁinle
Beautiful!