Mar Chuimhneachan orra

Remembrance song
 Please listen to the song, it will make the hair on your neck stand , it's so beautiful.

The song is a tribute to a young lad from Oban who served in the Royal Marines and lost his life in the Falklands War on his 21st birthday, two days before the war ended. This lovely sensitive arrangement by Chic Bonar is sung here by Na Boireannaich Eile ( Catriona Lang, Rona Morrison, Raonaid Deans and Emma Deans).


Translation of the Gaelic words
V1 - Alone with my thoughts, with the wind coming from the north,

A golden yellow sun like embers setting fire to the sea,

The gentle sheep so quiet with their offspring on the big hill,

The dusk of evening putting a glory on black shadows with gold.

V2 - The empty roofless barns, the houses that were once full,

Today so cold and so empty, the land uninhabited,

Not a plough, not a scythe, not a net, not a boat there,

The call of war took from us the boys who fell in battle.

V3 - Although we defeated the enemy, see now the price of victory,

A mother’s heart tortured, and the boys in the grave.

Not reputation nor honour will plough for us or reap,

The lonely empty peace of death will not return those who have gone from us.

V4 - At the cold grave of the MacPhersons in the snow on Pennyfuir

The pipes played a lament, there was the hard crack of the bullets,

In the futile war of the Falklands fell Gordon, too young,

Last year a boy in high school, today his death is our grief

V5 - The sun that goes down on us is warming the Prairies,

The night that closes in on us is an awakening for others,

In the dark evening of our life we await the wakening on the Great Day.




Hope the link works as it's a beautiful song