SET
ScottishCatalogue no. 1517a
Dàn nan ròn
Fate song of the seals
Music: Emily Doolittle, Words: Rody Gorman
Voicing: SA
Performance time approx: 3m 00s
Range S: d' – d'' / A: d' – g'
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This piece is part of the set "Dàn nan ròn SET".
It is not available for purchase as a single piece.
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The title song of the suite Dàn nan ròn is a lament.’Cha till, cha till MacDodruim – mo mhilleadh!’ (McCodrum will never return – I’m ruined!) Two lines of text, each intoned four times during the course of the song, give the names of those who will never be seen again. In contrast, the intervening lines of rhythmic Gaelic vocables are different each time, as if to say that grief invents its own, wordless, forms of expression.
Cha till, cha till MacCodruim — mo mhilleadh!
Hiodrum hodruim ru bhi o hoireann o ro ho eile
Hiodrum hodruim ru bhi o hoireann o ro ho eile
Na MacAoidh no MacAsgaill achaoidh tuilladh.
Hiodrum hodruim ru bhi o hoireann o ro ho eile
Iò ho i o hò ro bà è ho ba a bà e
lyrics and translation © Rody Gorman 2011 and used with permission.
McCodrum will never return — I’m ruined!
Hiodrum hodruim etc.
Or Mackay or MacAskill ever again either anymore.
Hiodrum hodruim etc.