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A Chomaraigh Aoibhinn Ó

Am I Born to Die?

An Ataireachd Ard

An Raibh Tú ag an gCarraig?

Ballad of Accounting

Bata Is Bóthar

Bheadh Buachaillín Deas Ag Síle

Black and White

The Bridge

Bruach Na Carraige Báine

Buile Mo Chroí

Capernaum

Captain Ward

Cathain

Ceann Dubh Dílis

Cúnnla

Cut-Price Hero

Dead Man's Boots

Dirty Old Town

Don Oíche Úd I mBeithil

Donald McGillavry

Éirigh Suas A Stóirín

Faoiseamh

The Flower of Finae

The Four-Loom Weaver

The Ghost of Tom Joad

Glanfaidh Mé

I Was Born For This

John Riley

Le diable et le fermier

Long Way

Máire Bhruinneal

Máire Mhilis Bhrea

Maith Dhom

Mollaí Na gCuach Ní Chuilleanáin

The Moving On Song

Nox Aurumque

Nuvole Bianche

Oíche Fá Fhéil' Bríde

Óró, Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile

The Poisonjester's Mask

The Queen of Argyll

Quiet of the Night

Reasonland

Refugee

Resolution Road

Sailor Song

Selkie

Siúbhan Ní Dhuibhir

Sleep

Someone Else's Tomorrow

Sorry

Sovay

Tá Sé 'Na Lá

Tenebrae IV

The Cruel Sister

The Twa Corbies

The Unquiet Grave

White Wind

You and I


Maintained by Scott Zeid.

Sovay

Traditional

As recorded by John Doyle on Evening Comes Early

English
Sovay, Sovay, all on a day
She dressed herself in man's array
With a sword and pistol all by her side
To meet her true love, to meet her true love away did ride
As she was riding over the plain
She met her true love and bid him stand
"Your gold and silver, kind sir," she said
"Or else this moment, or else this moment your life I'll have"
And when she'd robbed him of his store
She said, "Kind sir, there's just one thing more--
A golden ring which I know you have
Deliver it, your, deliver it, your sweet life to save"
"The golden ring a token is;
My life I'll lose, the ring I'll save"
Being tender-hearted just like a dove,
She rode away from, she rode away from her true love
Next morning in the garden green
Just like true lovers they were seen
He spied his watch hanging by her cloak
Which made him blush like, which made him blush like any rose
"What makes you blush at so silly a thing?
I thought to have had your golden ring
'Twas I that robbed you all on the plain
So here's your watch again, here's your watch and your gold again
"For I did intend and it was to know
If you were my true love or no
Well, now I have a contented mind
My heart and all my, my heart and all my gear is thine"
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