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Celtic, Irish, air, love song, bouzouki, trad, traditional. - My Lagan Love

from Nain's Kitchen / Cegin Nain by Catrin O'Neill

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Such a beautiful and mysterious Irish air.

"My Lagan Love" is a song to a traditional Irish air collected in 1903 in northern Donegal. The English lyrics have been credited to Joseph Campbell (1879–1944, also known as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil and Joseph McCahill, among others). Campbell was a Belfast man whose grandparents came from the Irish-speaking area of Flurrybridge, South Armagh. He started collecting songs in County Antrim.

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Where Lagan stream sings lullaby
There blows a lily fair
The twilight gleam is in her eye
The night is on her hair

And like a love-sick lennan-shee
She has my heart in thrall
Nor life I owe nor liberty
For love is lord of all

And often when the beetle's horn
Hath lulled the eve to sleep
I steal unto her shieling lorn
And thru the dooring peep

There on the cricket's singing stone
She spares the bogwood fire
And hums in sad sweet undertone
The songs of heart's desire
Nor life I owe nor liberty
For love is lord of all
For love is lord of all

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from Nain's Kitchen / Cegin Nain, released March 5, 2021

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Catrin O'Neill Aberdyfi, UK

Catrin O'Neill grew up by the sea in Aberdyfi,  in Snowdonia, surrounded by a wealth of traditional Welsh music and culture. Her Nain, was one of the first to introduce her to the magic of traditional folk songs, often sung in the kitchen beside the warm Aga with a cup of tea in hand.
It is her humour and ability to tell a story, that really set her aside from other folk singers. ... more

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