Irish Haka

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Irish Haka

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http://crookedtimber.org/2011/09/12/lam ... eile-haka/

It's blocked for me at work. I'll look at it when I get home. If anybody cares to do some kind of translation, that would be a kindness.
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Innocent Bystander wrote:http://crookedtimber.org/2011/09/12/lam ... eile-haka/

It's blocked for me at work. I'll look at it when I get home. If anybody cares to do some kind of translation, that would be a kindness.
The first bit (with just the one guy chanting) is nonsense: Ciúnas bóthar cailín bainne (Silence road girl milk). It comes from the last line of this ad, In which a guy, challenged in a bar to "do something Irish," simply repeats random words and phrases in "school" Irish, pretending it's a "poem in our native Irish tongue.":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF9FLBvxgho&NR=1

The rest of it is part of a child's nursery song that most Irish kids learn in school at some point:

Lámh, lámh eile, a haon, a dó
Cos, cos eile, a haon, a dó
Súil, súil eile, a haon, a dó
Cluas, cluas eile, a haon, a dó


A hand, another hand, one, two
A leg, another leg, one, two
An eye, another eye, one, two
An ear, another ear, one, two.

They left off the rest of the song:

Ceann, is srón, is béal, is smig
Is fiacla bána sa bhéal istigh


A head, and a nose, and a mouth, and a chin,
And white teeth the mouth within.

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Edited to put in a subtitled version of the Carlsberg ad
...agus déanfaidh mé do mholadh ar an gcruit a Dhia, a Dhia liom!
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Thank you, Red!
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Ná habair é!

I actually taught "Lámh, Lámh Eile" to a women's group at my church one St. Patrick's Day...they'd invited me and a few musician friends to come "do something Irish" so, after playing a few jigs and reels and singing a couple of sean-nós songs, I had them all stand up and "learn an Irish nursery rhyme" :lol:

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