I am 60 and live in New Zealand. When growing up my neighbors where from Scotland, had a encyclopedia in Gaelic and the Mum and Dad spoke Gaelic , they where the family 'Craig' they had the most beautiful super fluffy tortoiseshell cat called 'Whiskey' - the Dad always called me 'son' , I still remember him smoking a pipe and being a wonderful loving man.
In Scotland, people often refer to close males as "son" and close females as "hen". This can be anyone your peer or junior, friend or family, but never someone older than you. Nice to hear that Scottish quirks still show up on the other side of the world!
Séist: Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Mo shoraidh slàn leat 's gach àit' an téid thu 'S tric mi sealltainn on chnoc as àirde Dh'fheuch am faic mi fear a' bhàta An tig thu 'n-diugh na 'n tig thu màireach 'S mar tig thu idir gur truagh a ta mi Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Mo shoraidh slàn leat 's gach àit' an téid thu Tha mo chridhe-sa briste brùite 'S tric na deòir a ruith o m' shùilean An tig thu nochd na 'm bi mo dhùil riut Na 'n dùin mi 'n doras le osna thùrsaich? Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Mo shoraidh slàn leat 's gach àit' an téid thu 'S tric mi faighneachd de luchd nam bàta Am fac' iad thu na 'm bheil thu sàbhailt Ach 's ann a tha gach aon dhiubh 'g ràitinn Gur gòrach mise ma thug mi gràdh dhut Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile Mo shoraidh slàn leat 's gach àit' an téid thu
I know what Scots people say about the Irish. If you want to hear the best story about the sun and the moon and the love of the human heart, look for a drunken Irishman laying beside the road in the dark. I've got the blather and the bluster with the blarney on top. Bay-an-uck-let, blessings on you.
@@luxfer7794! Are you familiar with authentic history? Do you pronounce "Edinburgh" as eden-burra, which means "The Eden of the North"? Do you know the history of the Jewish political refugees, who fled after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth? They came to our island and went further, calling themselves The Hebredis Islands, meaning being of Hebrew. Scots occupied the northern part of the Irish island, but when the Irish developed a warring chieftain clan system, they sold and moved to the Scottish island. You should find The General Scottish Register and The Royal Scottish Register, created by those "Christian" Jewish refugees when they arrived, to account for everyone born since. Anthropologists can describe almost 200,000 of us, but I know there's another 50,000. If you are in there you have a right of return to Scotland. john@johnwatt.ca
@@johnwattdotca i am a gael. My people landed on these shores hundreds of years before the Christian relegion even existed. I was born and bred in the now called Scotland within a proud Nicdhomhnaill family so i have no need for a right of return.
@@johnwattdotca i just clicked on the link at the end of your post and it took me to a page all about your election as a leader in Canada. Is that right or did you make a mistake in your link?
Love you Ukrainians. Strong race, many troubles with your larger Neighbor, we Scots have problems as well we are only 5 million, the english are 60 million. But we will never give in. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH
@@northscot9862 Thanks a million, bro, I appreciate your kind words. Inside us is the blood of our ancestors who above all loved FREEDOM, so we'll never agree to be slaves. Slaves are not allowed into paradise. Good luck to you!
English Translation: I'm often searching on the highest hilltop Trying to find the boatman Will you come tonight or tomorrow? If you don't come at all, I'll be distraught Sèist: Chorus (after each verse): Oh boatman 'sna horo eile Oh boatman 'sna horo eile Oh boatman 'sna horo eile My best wishes go with you wherever you may be My heart is broken, bruised Often tears are running down my cheeks Will you come tonight or will I wait up for you But close the door, sighing heavily? My love promised me a dress of silk He promised me that and a gray tartan A gold ring where I'd see my reflection But I'm afraid he has forgotten I will be forever tearful and dejected Like a wild swan wounded and broken Wailing its song of death on some weedy pond Left by the others, alone and abandoned
There is a good side to this story. The woman that wrote it based it on events she was actually going through. But a few months after she'd written the song, she did end up marrying her boatman.
@@francesoregan394 our old language knows no border. We are gaels and all speak our own version of gaelic. Just like we have different. English accents. We have been gaels for 3000 years, celts for 7000. We are an old and beautiful culture that gave the civilised world art, music, science and more
@@francesoregan394This is Scottish Gaelic. The Irish version of this song is completely different. It's the difference between the Mc's or the Mac's th-cam.com/video/kBbSP1yNJTc/w-d-xo.html
If you see this song written English, you will see that it was written by a young woman, watching for her lover's boat to return to her island in the Hebrides, and wondering if ever they would get married. In fact they did eventually marry, so she needn't have worried. However, she wrote us a beautiful song that has enthralled millions of people over the years, and will continue to do so.
At first i thought it was a lullaby but i looked up the lyrics and it's about a woman waiting for her lover to return from the sea. and it doesn't seem like he will ever come back but her love for him doesn't falter..
Dell Derp that could still be a Scottish lullaby tho. Griogal Cridhe is a Scottish lullaby, and also a lament by the wife of Gregor MacGregor after he was killed. One of the lines translates to "they put your head on an oak stick a short distance from your body." It's still a lullaby.
it is unbelievably hard for english speaking scots to find a gaelic class, i am just one sassenach tongue. wondering why i cant sing properly the gaelic songs. foreigners or other sassenachs seem to do better than english speakers born on scottish soil. ex pats have to teach us sometimes or scandinavians. very strange but very real. i was born in glasgow. no town i moved to after has helped with gaelic, my ancestors spoke it before moving to glasgow a hundred or more years ago. it only takes two or three generations to lose it all.
Beautiful song sad how much of our language and history was ripped away from us, respect to Ireland for keeping their culture alive, I hope Scotland can wake up and hold itself strong in this world.
Sometimes I feel bad for the Irish and the Scots, particularly the Irish as what my ancestors did to the them was horrendous, but I hope one day it is forgiven and we can realise how strong the British Isles are when they are united. A good life to you brother, or in the old Anglo-Saxon tongue "Weargbr¯æde cystig windeêow brôðor"
@@fodge5395 The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms did terrible things to their neighbours, and this sadly carried on well into the previous century. But if there's one thing I know, it's that progress can never be made whilst people still cling on to past grievances, and deliberately keep wounds open. The time of kingdoms is over, and as a Scottish person, it disappoints me when scots get on their nationalistic high-horse. I'm not motivated by religious or cultural biases, but I do know that united, the British isles forged the largest empire the world has ever seen. Unity means strength, and I can honestly say in the last 200 years Scotland has had very little to complain about as part of Britain. So I can only surmise that the SNP and their ilk are simply playing on minor complaints and nationalistic impulses to gain political power.
@@HolyMith Well all humans have done terrible things to each other, I could say just as well the Danes did terrible things to the Anglo-Saxons but it means very little in the grand scheme of it. But I agree, the SNP have a false guise of nationality but they're not real patriots and they play on it to gain fervour. Nicola Sturgeon gives me the impression she doesn't even like her own country, she just hates England more.
Lads the strategic attempts to eliminate Gaelic culture was sadistic and methodical. But that was the past. Diversity should be valued, in all its forms
Yankee blood is blood, if SCOTS settled in your land, if they born of the SCOTS blood they will be that blood till they die(no matter whatever land we go, we will be SCOTS) live long and well. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH
I am really in love with the Gaelic Music, though I am a Filipino, Asian, i found their music mystical and one of a kind. I want to learn their language and their music.
This is my first experience to listen to a Gaelic song, and I feel this singing is simple and very beautiful without any exaggeration！Gealic language itself is also beautiful one.ーfrom Tokyo in Japan.
Just a thought.....if you were a Scotttish baby in your mother's arms listening to her sing to you in Scots Gaelic like this dear lass.....you would love your country more than men could possibly understand.
@@thomaskelly5349: at the time it seemed like the better option economically (or at least, that is my impression as to the reason the independence vote didn't quite get up). Now that the English have saddled them with Brexit, not so much.
@@resourcedragon I had chalked it up to the fact that anyone with a British passport was permitted to vote rather than just the Scots. There are a lot of English up there as well as foreigners who've been given the means to vote in Scotland. I'm not there, I could easily be wrong, but that's the impression I got from a distance.
It's a shame our society in this time of age is plagued by supposed artists such as Justin bieber, lil Wayne, drake etc who poison the young generation with inappropriate and explicit material. It puzzles me why society is so naive when to comes to such beautiful music such as this, songs like this need to flourish and receive more views. This is a beautiful language which left me in awe. Greetings from Lithuania my European brothers.
Thomas Gauk I am bearing in mind this is a rather old comment, but I completely agree with you. The people who listen to that stuff who are in my class are out doing drugs, smoking, drinking and "other stuff" however I hate that music and instead of doing that, I took up art, guitar, singing and I am learning Gaelic. We are a brainwashed society of aimless zombies who can no longer enjoy the beauty of this music. One day I plan to leave England for my home isle, Skye. Thank you for being another deep spirit who appreciates my roots!
My family were also Jacobites. It pains me when people say we aren't Scottish. My family fought for their freedom whether someone agrees with it or not. Then forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands. I am proud to have two distinct sides to my family, one American and one Scottish. The '45 was beyond a tragedy, the least that someone could do is let the descendants of Jacobites call themselves by the nationality they love and spend every waking day learning about.
this song makes me want to go to the mountains forever, and to find in these mountains the love of my life that appears out of nowhere like a ghost and spend the rest of my life with her there
Saying it isn't magic and then citing -another- matter of opinion to support the statement doesn't a very solid statement make. If our culture were destroyed by the British, it wouldn't be here. Putting out a candle is meaningless if you take a flame to the wick again after. If I had to choose between the response of "This is completely normal" and "This is magic", with no middle grounds to be had, then, quite. This would be magic. o~o Bíodh lá maith agat.
@Lily Wood I’m well aware of my own peoples history, there’s no evidence of the Celts committing Ethnic Cleansing against the Picts, or the Vikings that settled in our North and West either. If you’re happy that justifies the Highland Clearances (or any of the other sins of the British Empire, such as the Opium Wars) I beg to differ.
I searched up this song because I sang it to my 14 and 7yr old children as a lullaby and I wanted to hear it again. I learned it from a CD I had and fell in love with it!!!
I am ashamed that I never had nor took the opportunity to learn Scottish Gaelic. Given that I have a lot of Scottish relatives, my late dad included, I feel robbed. Beautiful country, beautiful people, beautiful song. Thanks for sharing.
@@Skyebright1 True. I heard recently that the primary school my dad went to is now teaching their students Gaelic alongside English. About time. I hope the trend continues.
The song was made by a girl from Tong on the island of Lewis who looks for her fisherman boyfriend who came from Uig on the Isle of Lewis. They subsequently married.
@@n1ckskelton it most certainly is. the scots have written many many wonderful songs over the centuries. hundreds upon hundreds f fiddle reel tunes too( fiddle reels being indigenous to scotland, not ireland).
How beautiful are those landscapes! To say nothing about the music… Thank you for sharing this video, keep up the good work, and warm greetings from Spain.
it's so sweet!, I Imagine mi own mother singing that song for mi and i will have yet a very good sleeping and dreaming, thank you!!! in deep. a kelt from Alsace(France) or "Gaule" It's better for mi...
Proud to be Scottish or in gaelic -alba gu bráth, learning to sing in gaelic at the moment ,love oor wee mighty country ..freedom forever and forever be free:')
What the heck, I just randomly search for gaelic songs, I find this, and I bawl my eyes out. This is the most beautiful thing I heard in longer than I can remember.
get her disc. I know people who duetted with her. It was a peak experience of life for them in nearly every way, as you can imagine. They are different people now. Pray she keeps musicking. we need her music. I am so happy so many are hit so hugely by her voice and this song. She has 2 discs for sale on her website and one is her solo record. Her/music is proof creation is good, and God too by extension.
Ennui Escape Yes, a nice coincidence. If I remember correctly it was on "Monster (Anime) - The Full OST" (btw thanks for uploading that soundtrack). I enjoy listening to great music.
+celroid532 This isn't really that obscure of a song. It's one of the best known gaelic songs and since they based a significant portion of the game on that culture its not surprising they discovered this.
My grandfather's favorite song but he sang it in Scots Gaelic and faster, probably to keep the pace milling (working woolen fabric). He died back in the 70s when I was 8, of a generation who spoke Gaelic as their first language. Their story is told in The Last stronghold by Margret Bennet.
Thanks for your note. I will look for this book. Weaving and fabric were important aspects of Gaelic life. My grandparents also spoke Gaelic and some family were involved in weaving on the Hebrides.
I FINALLY FOUND IT! I sang this song for the mod back in primary school and I long ago forgot the name but I could always remember the tune and have been looking for it for a long time :)
The Almighy has looked down in His love at the sad plight of humanity in 2020. He has decided we need love, solace and comfort. This wonderful little piece is certainly one way He has succeeded in succouring us all.
I climb the mountain and scan the ocean For thee, my boatman, with fond devotion When shall I see thee? today? tomorrow? Oh! do not leave me in lonely sorrow.
Bill Dryden Yes, i agree. I have been to a lot of countries but NONE have impressed me so much as Bonny Scotland!...I love scotland and always will and i am English! I am proud of my husband and son Scottish name and history!
bless you and bless them, if yu really want to be more than them then surely the hardest most challenging thing would be to have mercy where the could not and forgive.
Anybody know where one can find more legit traditional music like this? Doesn't have to be Scottish or Irish alone, I just want to really get to know genuine tunes that weren't made for the specific goal of fame or world fashion. This sounds lovely and real, not oversynthesized, just instruments making something actually "new". And TH-cam really lacks this kind of stuff
So can I say I finally found, after long search, the perfect type of music for true relaxation? Because im tired of only finding 1 hour mixes of the same four chords on vulgar sounds
This is quickly becoming my one of my two favorite versions of this song. The other is Dougie MacLean and friends instrumental version with violin filling in for vocals.
Hauntingly beautiful! My grandfather came from the Isle of Harris and Gaelic was his first language. Sadly he died in 1977 when I was little so I don’t remember much about him but I like to think his languages skills were perhaps passed onto me (German, French, Spanish etc) but have to admit that Gaelic pronunciation looks alien to me but I’d love to learn it! ❤
So we now know 47 people on this earth have literally no ears. I've grown up with Gaelic music as a huge influence and support mechanism. When I was just tiny my family lived in a tiny village (Roskill) on the Isle of Skye. They ran the guest house until they moved down to the north east. Many times I've visited Scotland but when I'm not there there is a hole in my soul that was left knowing I cannot be in Scotland. I began learning Gaelic and one day I plan to live back on the Hebrides. I hate the north east, I am an outcast, and no one believes in Scottish because I've lived with my mum my whole life and she has a very British accent I seem to have inherited. This beautiful song always brings a tear to my eye as faint memories of Skye flash through my mind, and the haunting fiddle in this is just a beautiful touch... edit: if you are listening to this on a phone, plug you're headphones into a computer instead and put the volume up. Trust me the sound is far more pure!
@@minotauruskt If any of you fellas love Age of Empires 2, I did realistic maps such as one of the world where you can begin in Britain (which I exaggerated so it could be used well), and one of EVROPA where you have beautiful Ireland. I'm Spanish and I plan to learn Irish.
Ah, Skellige. What a beautiful place.
Only total war medieval 1 soundtrack, they used it firat
I actually really liked Fields of Ard Skellige and have listened to this song ever since ❤️
Man of culture
@@NewRomancer37 You do understand that Skellige is an area in a video game, yes?
Indeed Mohammad
There's some magic to Gaelic that makes everything written in it sound angelic
Well a lot of elvish stuff is based of Gaelic cultures and language, so that might be it.
Yes!!! It is beautiful beyond my words to express!
Joey
the old country :)
I'm sure there is its also that magical part that makes it impossible to pronounce
You mean it makes it sound Angaelic.
I am 60 and live in New Zealand. When growing up my neighbors where from Scotland, had a encyclopedia in Gaelic and the Mum and Dad spoke Gaelic , they where the family 'Craig' they had the most beautiful super fluffy tortoiseshell cat called 'Whiskey' - the Dad always called me 'son' , I still remember him smoking a pipe and being a wonderful loving man.
In Scotland, people often refer to close males as "son" and close females as "hen". This can be anyone your peer or junior, friend or family, but never someone older than you. Nice to hear that Scottish quirks still show up on the other side of the world!
Great story
Séist:
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Mo shoraidh slàn leat 's gach àit' an téid thu
'S tric mi sealltainn on chnoc as àirde
Dh'fheuch am faic mi fear a' bhàta
An tig thu 'n-diugh na 'n tig thu màireach
'S mar tig thu idir gur truagh a ta mi
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Mo shoraidh slàn leat 's gach àit' an téid thu
Tha mo chridhe-sa briste brùite
'S tric na deòir a ruith o m' shùilean
An tig thu nochd na 'm bi mo dhùil riut
Na 'n dùin mi 'n doras le osna thùrsaich?
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Mo shoraidh slàn leat 's gach àit' an téid thu
'S tric mi faighneachd de luchd nam bàta
Am fac' iad thu na 'm bheil thu sàbhailt
Ach 's ann a tha gach aon dhiubh 'g ràitinn
Gur gòrach mise ma thug mi gràdh dhut
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Fhir a' bhàta, na hóro eile
Mo shoraidh slàn leat 's gach àit' an téid thu
This is a very beautiful song. I wish I knew Gaelic.
Woman is waiting for a sailor who were in sea for ~1 thousand years...
And she is thinking, if he will come back...
thank you for the lyrics
@@soullessandpained See the version by Sandy Denny
In Icelandic we say Báta and it means a boat what is it in Gaelic ?
The Scots and Irish are entwined in their language ,songs and culture and will always be . We are Gaels and Celts.Our songs are our history .Saoirse
I know what Scots people say about the Irish.
If you want to hear the best story about the sun and the moon and the love of the human heart,
look for a drunken Irishman laying beside the road in the dark.
I've got the blather and the bluster with the blarney on top. Bay-an-uck-let, blessings on you.
Well said, Im a Nicdhomhnaill. We are an ancient scottish clan with our roots in eire
@@luxfer7794! Are you familiar with authentic history? Do you pronounce "Edinburgh" as eden-burra,
which means "The Eden of the North"? Do you know the history of the Jewish political refugees,
who fled after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth? They came to our island and went further,
calling themselves The Hebredis Islands, meaning being of Hebrew.
Scots occupied the northern part of the Irish island, but when the Irish developed a warring
chieftain clan system, they sold and moved to the Scottish island.
You should find The General Scottish Register and The Royal Scottish Register, created by
those "Christian" Jewish refugees when they arrived, to account for everyone born since.
Anthropologists can describe almost 200,000 of us, but I know there's another 50,000.
If you are in there you have a right of return to Scotland. john@johnwatt.ca
@@johnwattdotca i am a gael. My people landed on these shores hundreds of years before the Christian relegion even existed. I was born and bred in the now called Scotland within a proud Nicdhomhnaill family so i have no need for a right of return.
@@johnwattdotca i just clicked on the link at the end of your post and it took me to a page all about your election as a leader in Canada. Is that right or did you make a mistake in your link?
She could be singing her grocery list for all I know but it is simply beautiful to listen to.
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I'm Ukrainian, but sounds of Gaelic music and Gaelic language touch me to the bottom of my heart. Fantastically beautiful!!!)))
Love you Ukrainians. Strong race, many troubles with your larger Neighbor, we Scots have problems as well we are only 5 million, the english are 60 million. But we will never give in. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH
@@northscot9862 Thanks a million, bro, I appreciate your kind words. Inside us is the blood of our ancestors who above all loved FREEDOM, so we'll never agree to be slaves. Slaves are not allowed into paradise. Good luck to you!
Привітання з України
@@sydorovich2532 Мої привітання!
I hope you are ok
English Translation:
I'm often searching on the highest hilltop
Trying to find the boatman
Will you come tonight or tomorrow?
If you don't come at all, I'll be distraught
Sèist: Chorus (after each verse):
Oh boatman 'sna horo eile
Oh boatman 'sna horo eile
Oh boatman 'sna horo eile
My best wishes go with you wherever you may be
My heart is broken, bruised
Often tears are running down my cheeks
Will you come tonight or will I wait up for you
But close the door, sighing heavily?
My love promised me a dress of silk
He promised me that and a gray tartan
A gold ring where I'd see my reflection
But I'm afraid he has forgotten
I will be forever tearful and dejected
Like a wild swan wounded and broken
Wailing its song of death on some weedy pond
Left by the others, alone and abandoned
Nathan Goodfellow 😢
Nathan Goodfellow THATS SO SAD 😭
She has the voice of an angel.
Pixie May I know what it means a wife's husband got lost in the sea and he hasent came back and she hopes he's safe😢
There is a good side to this story. The woman that wrote it based it on events she was actually going through. But a few months after she'd written the song, she did end up marrying her boatman.
The language of paradise.
The language of Scotland
Gaelic is the most beautiful language...
There is a peculiar emotive perfection to some Gaelic airs etc. that you can't help to make you think they are truly heavenly the work of angels.
Celtic Park
Ily23 Iken is English.
A voice as clear, and pure as a mountain stream .
This is awesome. One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. Really, Gaelic is beautiful. Greetings from Poland.
+Borlach maith thu
Hi to Poland just to let you know the Language is Irish,Slan👍
@@francesoregan394 our old language knows no border. We are gaels and all speak our own version of gaelic. Just like we have different. English accents. We have been gaels for 3000 years, celts for 7000. We are an old and beautiful culture that gave the civilised world art, music, science and more
@@francesoregan394 This is actually in Scottish Gaelic.
@@francesoregan394This is Scottish Gaelic. The Irish version of this song is completely different. It's the difference between the Mc's or the Mac's th-cam.com/video/kBbSP1yNJTc/w-d-xo.html
If you see this song written English, you will see that it was written by a young woman, watching for her lover's boat to return to her island in the Hebrides, and wondering if ever they would get married. In fact they did eventually marry, so she needn't have worried. However, she wrote us a beautiful song that has enthralled millions of people over the years, and will continue to do so.
Celtic culture is alive and well in Australia, Canada and the United States of America
At first i thought it was a lullaby but i looked up the lyrics and it's about a woman waiting for her lover to return from the sea. and it doesn't seem like he will ever come back but her love for him doesn't falter..
Dell Derp that could still be a Scottish lullaby tho. Griogal Cridhe is a Scottish lullaby, and also a lament by the wife of Gregor MacGregor after he was killed. One of the lines translates to "they put your head on an oak stick a short distance from your body." It's still a lullaby.
Dell Derp He returned and they were married. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_a%27_Bh%C3%A0ta#Lyrics
yay happy endings!~
@@pingpong4811 It... doesn't say that.... it ends with the implication that she's dying of a broken heart.
@@jacobwilson8134 Look up the wiki article and follow some of the references to later versions of the song.
This music makes me proud to be Scottish !! :)
I don't speak the Gaelic language but I have never heard such a beautiful language anywhere, In the world!
it is unbelievably hard for english speaking scots to find a gaelic class, i am just one sassenach tongue. wondering why i cant sing properly the gaelic songs. foreigners or other sassenachs seem to do better than english speakers born on scottish soil. ex pats have to teach us sometimes or scandinavians. very strange but very real. i was born in glasgow. no town i moved to after has helped with gaelic, my ancestors spoke it before moving to glasgow a hundred or more years ago. it only takes two or three generations to lose it all.
May your soul be touched by a beautiful song like this each day
Beautiful song
sad how much of our language and history was ripped away from us, respect to Ireland for keeping their culture alive, I hope Scotland can wake up and hold itself strong in this world.
Sometimes I feel bad for the Irish and the Scots, particularly the Irish as what my ancestors did to the them was horrendous, but I hope one day it is forgiven and we can realise how strong the British Isles are when they are united. A good life to you brother, or in the old Anglo-Saxon tongue "Weargbr¯æde cystig windeêow brôðor"
@@fodge5395 The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms did terrible things to their neighbours, and this sadly carried on well into the previous century. But if there's one thing I know, it's that progress can never be made whilst people still cling on to past grievances, and deliberately keep wounds open. The time of kingdoms is over, and as a Scottish person, it disappoints me when scots get on their nationalistic high-horse. I'm not motivated by religious or cultural biases, but I do know that united, the British isles forged the largest empire the world has ever seen. Unity means strength, and I can honestly say in the last 200 years Scotland has had very little to complain about as part of Britain. So I can only surmise that the SNP and their ilk are simply playing on minor complaints and nationalistic impulses to gain political power.
@@HolyMith Well all humans have done terrible things to each other, I could say just as well the Danes did terrible things to the Anglo-Saxons but it means very little in the grand scheme of it. But I agree, the SNP have a false guise of nationality but they're not real patriots and they play on it to gain fervour. Nicola Sturgeon gives me the impression she doesn't even like her own country, she just hates England more.
Lads the strategic attempts to eliminate Gaelic culture was sadistic and methodical. But that was the past. Diversity should be valued, in all its forms
So pretty, i wish I could speak Gaelic, it's such a beautiful language.
Never too late to start ;)
petit0renard is it difficult to learn?
Scottish Gaelic is easier than it's Irish variant. There is also Manx Gaelic from the Isle of Man, but that is quite obscure
manx and scottish came from irish
I speak irish /Gaelic in school and it truly is a beautiful language and quite easy to learn
Im English, and this song was at my Scottish auntie funeral, and i tell you what it is the best thing i heard
Very beautiful Scottish gaelic music
Can we talk about how this lady is from Oregon, singing this song totally authentically? Just wow.
Yankee blood is blood, if SCOTS settled in your land, if they born of the SCOTS blood they will be that blood till they die(no matter whatever land we go, we will be SCOTS) live long and well. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH
@@northscot9862 I'm from Virginia and we are not Yankees
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic My apologies, I know the S outhern States, SLAINTE. SOAR ALBA GU BRATH
I have zero idea what this song is about. But the sound and melody makes me fall in love with it.
Drake Charles this is a very traditional Gaelic song by Sìne NicFhionnlaigh about an unrequited love for a young fisherman.
so do I. More than ...beautiful...
this is so beautiful and deeply touching
I first heard it in witcher 3, both versions are wonderful
I am really in love with the Gaelic Music, though I am a Filipino, Asian, i found their music mystical and one of a kind. I want to learn their language and their music.
The Philippine folks are known for their love of melodic music. Regards
Well Jeremy, did you make a start? Gàildhlig with Jason
This is my first experience to listen to a Gaelic song, and I feel this singing is simple and very beautiful without any exaggeration！Gealic language itself is also beautiful one.ーfrom Tokyo in Japan.
私もです
Slànte Chiko. Cheers!
You can learn a little, hope to see you one day at "Scottish gàidhlig with Jason"
Just a thought.....if you were a Scotttish baby in your mother's arms listening to her sing to you in Scots Gaelic like this dear lass.....you would love your country more than men could possibly understand.
This is my baby boys favourite song 💙
Absolutely
Yet u refused ur independence
@@thomaskelly5349: at the time it seemed like the better option economically (or at least, that is my impression as to the reason the independence vote didn't quite get up). Now that the English have saddled them with Brexit, not so much.
@@resourcedragon I had chalked it up to the fact that anyone with a British passport was permitted to vote rather than just the Scots. There are a lot of English up there as well as foreigners who've been given the means to vote in Scotland.
I'm not there, I could easily be wrong, but that's the impression I got from a distance.
It's a shame our society in this time of age is plagued by supposed artists such as Justin bieber, lil Wayne, drake etc who poison the young generation with inappropriate and explicit material. It puzzles me why society is so naive when to comes to such beautiful music such as this, songs like this need to flourish and receive more views. This is a beautiful language which left me in awe. Greetings from Lithuania my European brothers.
Thomas Gauk I am bearing in mind this is a rather old comment, but I completely agree with you. The people who listen to that stuff who are in my class are out doing drugs, smoking, drinking and "other stuff" however I hate that music and instead of doing that, I took up art, guitar, singing and I am learning Gaelic. We are a brainwashed society of aimless zombies who can no longer enjoy the beauty of this music. One day I plan to leave England for my home isle, Skye. Thank you for being another deep spirit who appreciates my roots!
My family were also Jacobites. It pains me when people say we aren't Scottish. My family fought for their freedom whether someone agrees with it or not. Then forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands. I am proud to have two distinct sides to my family, one American and one Scottish. The '45 was beyond a tragedy, the least that someone could do is let the descendants of Jacobites call themselves by the nationality they love and spend every waking day learning about.
So were my family, hell, some of them even fought at Culloden.
this song makes me want to go to the mountains forever, and to find in these mountains the love of my life that appears out of nowhere like a ghost and spend the rest of my life with her there
This is pure magic. It comes from another universe and there are no words to describe it.
It comes from my country. It isn't magic, it is a distant echo of a culture destroyed by the British.
Saying it isn't magic and then citing -another- matter of opinion to support the statement doesn't a very solid statement make. If our culture were destroyed by the British, it wouldn't be here. Putting out a candle is meaningless if you take a flame to the wick again after.
If I had to choose between the response of "This is completely normal" and "This is magic", with no middle grounds to be had, then, quite. This would be magic. o~o
Bíodh lá maith agat.
+Andy Monaghan scrios siad dŕ ár gcultúir
...poetry set to music...sublime...I'm weeping...
@Lily Wood I’m well aware of my own peoples history, there’s no evidence of the Celts committing Ethnic Cleansing against the Picts, or the Vikings that settled in our North and West either. If you’re happy that justifies the Highland Clearances (or any of the other sins of the British Empire, such as the Opium Wars) I beg to differ.
Don't understand a word but somehow it always brings me to such a calm and nostalgic place. I love this song and her voice is absolutely angelic.
I searched up this song because I sang it to my 14 and 7yr old children as a lullaby and I wanted to hear it again. I learned it from a CD I had and fell in love with it!!!
I've been to those places and it's so beautiful.
Thanks - so beautiful. I haven't heard this song in about 40 years! David Stewart
In very few songs do I get goosebumps and shivers, and only this one gives me them all over every time. Wow
I am ashamed that I never had nor took the opportunity to learn Scottish Gaelic. Given that I have a lot of Scottish relatives, my late dad included, I feel robbed. Beautiful country, beautiful people, beautiful song. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Tardis… visit Duolingo if you haven’t already!!! You can easily learn it there!!! I’m learning Irish Gaelic in honor and love of my heritage!!!
Well, get cracking! Duolingo. Gàidhlig with Jason. Learn Gàidhlig ABC is superb
Duolingo, we need every Scottish Gaelic speaker we can get ;)
@@Skyebright1 True. I heard recently that the primary school my dad went to is now teaching their students Gaelic alongside English. About time. I hope the trend continues.
i wish my family would speak this language more. it's so beautiful.
I found this sing freshman year of high school after reading the book the shack. I love this song. It will forever be the backdrop to my happiness
My wife and I danced to this at our wedding years ago, and dance to it once a year on our anniversary ever since.
Wonderful and beautiful song.
Absolutely beautiful, amazing Song! Gaelic in my opinion is the most beautiful language in the world.
It is
Galeic songs attract me ...
From India
The witcher bring me here.
The way Gaelic just flows just makes it beautiful. It flows like water
So let's get back to the point: This is a beautiful collection of pix and amazing song.
Amazing voice, thank you Alison.
This song brings out such strong emotion, so strong i have not yet experienced such emotion.
she is most amazing singer I have ever met.
I was born in America, but I will always be proud to be Scottish. I love this piece!
The song was made by a girl from Tong on the island of Lewis who looks for her fisherman boyfriend who came from Uig on the Isle of Lewis. They subsequently married.
It almost certainly wasn't. You mustn't believe everything you read on Wikipedia.
@@n1ckskelton I say it was you say it wasn't The author is lost in antiquity but is renowned in the village I know well.Good enough for me
@@n1ckskelton it most certainly is. the scots have written many many wonderful songs over the centuries. hundreds upon hundreds f fiddle reel tunes too( fiddle reels being indigenous to scotland, not ireland).
I Love this Song, regardless I´am from Czech Republic... I Love Scotsland and Its Culture...
1 million views now.The voice down from 7 heaven
This song is so sweet for me . I'm as a baby in mother's arms.......love
How beautiful are those landscapes! To say nothing about the music… Thank you for sharing this video, keep up the good work, and warm greetings from Spain.
This is really beautiful! Hope to visit this beautiful place! Greetings from Serbia 😊
it's so sweet!, I Imagine mi own mother singing that song for mi and i will have yet a very good sleeping and dreaming, thank you!!! in deep. a kelt from Alsace(France) or "Gaule" It's better for mi...
I am english, but i love and respect OUR SONS HISTORY!
CAMPBELL of ARGYLE!
GAELIC....will Always be the most beautiful language ever!!!.....xxx
Proud to be Scottish or in gaelic -alba gu bráth, learning to sing in gaelic at the moment ,love oor wee mighty country ..freedom forever and forever be free:')
What the heck, I just randomly search for gaelic songs, I find this, and I bawl my eyes out. This is the most beautiful thing I heard in longer than I can remember.
get her disc. I know people who duetted with her. It was a peak experience of life for them in nearly every way, as you can imagine. They are different people now.
Pray she keeps musicking. we need her music.
I am so happy so many are hit so hugely by her voice and this song.
She has 2 discs for sale on her website and one is her solo record. Her/music is proof creation is good, and God too by extension.
The Witcher 3 - Fields of Ard Skellig
Ennui Escape Yes, a nice coincidence. If I remember correctly it was on "Monster (Anime) - The Full OST" (btw thanks for uploading that soundtrack). I enjoy listening to great music.
JMSLionheart I wonder where they find about such obscure songs like this and bonny at morn.
Ennui Escape it's pretty rare to bump up to previously met people because youtube is so fast. lol
+celroid532 I think they do research into to the cultures of the real world areas that they locations draw inspiration from.
+celroid532 This isn't really that obscure of a song. It's one of the best known gaelic songs and since they based a significant portion of the game on that culture its not surprising they discovered this.
Scottish by birth Was taken to Africa at 2 yrs old it's in my blood my soul I feel at home in Scotland.
I can almost hear the sirens, beautiful piece
This brings me tears.
Don't mind me, just slaying some Sirens.
No that's the illusion, in reality they are eating you.
+Anaru LST Sirens don't deal in such complex illusions, they just enchant.
+EbonyManta he means The witcher 3, this song's in it
Kevin Castro Casanova
Really? Wow, that's awesome that this song's in it. Don't think I've gotten that far, sadly.
+EbonyManta its not an exact replica, it takes a few verses, you can look it up "Fields of ard skellig"
This is just beautiful.
I just love this! truly beautiful
So beautiful
My grandfather's favorite song but he sang it in Scots Gaelic and faster, probably to keep the pace milling (working woolen fabric). He died back in the 70s when I was 8, of a generation who spoke Gaelic as their first language. Their story is told in The Last stronghold by Margret Bennet.
Thanks for your note. I will look for this book. Weaving and fabric were important aspects of Gaelic life. My grandparents also spoke Gaelic and some family were involved in weaving on the Hebrides.
what a voice whata music omg makes me cry so peacefully...
I FINALLY FOUND IT! I sang this song for the mod back in primary school and I long ago forgot the name but I could always remember the tune and have been looking for it for a long time :)
The Almighy has looked down in His love at the sad plight of humanity in 2020. He has decided we need love, solace and comfort. This wonderful little piece is certainly one way He has succeeded in succouring us all.
Alhamdulillah
Sehr schönes Lied und Stimme, ich war mal in 🇮🇪 und 🏴, und mir hat sehr viel Spaß gemacht, 🍻🇩🇪🇷🇺🇩🇪
It is SCOTLAND not IRELAND but the Irish are our brothers.SAOR ALBA GU BRATH
This is my favourite version by far. Absolutely enchanting
Beautiful voice thank you !!
Sounds so magic. I wish it could have more songs in Gaelic.
Alison, your voice is wonderful and you sing in the original and authentic way. Looking forward to hearing more of your work.
the prettiest version I've heard. I've heard a lot, and she's the best. so pretty.
I climb the mountain and scan the ocean
For thee, my boatman, with fond devotion
When shall I see thee? today? tomorrow?
Oh! do not leave me in lonely sorrow.
This is my favourite gaelic song of all time.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LANQUAGE EVER!!
and the land to go with it!
Bill Dryden Yes, i agree.
I have been to a lot of countries but NONE have impressed me so much as Bonny Scotland!...I love scotland and always will and i am English! I am proud of my husband and son Scottish name and history!
Gaelic people, great and beautifull!
wonderfull! such a great history!
bless you and bless them, if yu really want to be more than them then surely the hardest most challenging thing would be to have mercy where the could not and forgive.
This is beautiful , Thank you
Beautiful Music! What a lovely country - what a lovely voice!
Anybody know where one can find more legit traditional music like this? Doesn't have to be Scottish or Irish alone, I just want to really get to know genuine tunes that weren't made for the specific goal of fame or world fashion.
This sounds lovely and real, not oversynthesized, just instruments making something actually "new". And TH-cam really lacks this kind of stuff
Start with The Cories the masters of Scottish Folk
Gone far too soon gonçcalo
There’s a TH-cam channel called Maire Ni Shuilleabhain that has a lot of Irish traditional songs
Listen to Bach.
ahhhh. i love this & it has haunted me. so glad to find it again.
beautiful ❤
Just visited Ard skellige, what a stunning island !
So can I say I finally found, after long search, the perfect type of music for true relaxation? Because im tired of only finding 1 hour mixes of the same four chords on vulgar sounds
One of my Favorited songs. xx
This is quickly becoming my one of my two favorite versions of this song. The other is Dougie MacLean and friends instrumental version with violin filling in for vocals.
Hauntingly beautiful! My grandfather came from the Isle of Harris and Gaelic was his first language. Sadly he died in 1977 when I was little so I don’t remember much about him but I like to think his languages skills were perhaps passed onto me (German, French, Spanish etc) but have to admit that Gaelic pronunciation looks alien to me but I’d love to learn it! ❤
feels like angels...
So we now know 47 people on this earth have literally no ears. I've grown up with Gaelic music as a huge influence and support mechanism. When I was just tiny my family lived in a tiny village (Roskill) on the Isle of Skye. They ran the guest house until they moved down to the north east. Many times I've visited Scotland but when I'm not there there is a hole in my soul that was left knowing I cannot be in Scotland. I began learning Gaelic and one day I plan to live back on the Hebrides. I hate the north east, I am an outcast, and no one believes in Scottish because I've lived with my mum my whole life and she has a very British accent I seem to have inherited. This beautiful song always brings a tear to my eye as faint memories of Skye flash through my mind, and the haunting fiddle in this is just a beautiful touch...
edit: if you are listening to this on a phone, plug you're headphones into a computer instead and put the volume up. Trust me the sound is far more pure!
Far more to an identity than an accent.
I hope you got along well with the language. Best of luck to you. Slàinte.
Maybe it's the 47 Ronins - since they all were sad with the ending
So melancolic and romantic song... make me dream..❤
Medieval Total War, Witcher 3, Fairy Tail... probably Lineage too. Seems like it's very popular song for game OSTs.
Don't forget Heroes of Might and Magic IV!
And a little less-known game; Disciples 3 also uses this
Medieval total war is the best game
@@gavinbarnum9458 yes!
@@minotauruskt If any of you fellas love Age of Empires 2, I did realistic maps such as one of the world where you can begin in Britain (which I exaggerated so it could be used well), and one of EVROPA where you have beautiful Ireland. I'm Spanish and I plan to learn Irish.
Takes me back to Scotland. Every time.
Very nice! I know the song, but never heard of this singer before... :)
Thanks! I have a newer channel for my more recent work. Check it out if you'd like :) I have more songs coming soon.
This song is beautiful
Och! I'm homesick tha noo. I miss my home in Ayr.