Siúil a Rúin - LYRICS + Translation - Clannad 

Hearing the guy echo made me cry. Like he's wishing her well, and also like he's memorizing her words to him because he might not make it back.

The woman who is singing is actually talking about a young man who went to France to join the "Irish Brigade" which was a French unit made up of Irishmen who fled to France to join the French Army. During the period of Jacobite Rebellions after the English Civil War, many young rebels from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales traveled to France to join the French Army to fight the English on various battlefields of Europe throughout the early eighteenth Century. the Hanoverian Kings of England (Current British Royal Family) and the English Lords were constantly engaged against Scottish Highlanders, Irish rebels, and most of the common people of Britain who supported the Stuart Kings. Many joined the French Army believing that when Charles Edward Stuart would come of age, that he would return to Britain with a French Army at his back to take back the British Crown. In the final rebellion of 1745 the French sent most of these Irish and Scottish based units to help support the Highland Army. However, during the Battle of Culloden, after a valiant last stand, the Irish regiments were wiped-out completely, with every last man killed by the British Army. Afterward King Louis took no more Irish or Scots into his Army, and gave up helping his nephews gain back the British Throne. It a much more tragic song when you know the fate of the Irish Soldiers who fought in those regiments.

When I was younger I used to see people sitting in pubs tapping their foot along to a trad singer and always thought they needed to get a tv or the internet. As my Irish has gotten better and I can understand songs like this without needing to translate anything, I totally get it. Its unlike anything I have heard in English. Close your eyes and sing along in your head and the rhymes of the words, the flow of them, the singing, the meaning, they all flow into one. Its hypnotic. I can understand why the fitzgeralds gave up their language in favour of irish, and why the poets of old were held in such high regard, can only imagine how beautiful some of their poems/songs must have been.

I looked up this song because of the manga "The Girl from the Other Side" and the song makes it so much more tragically beautiful.

I absolutely love the Irish language. I really wish I could speak it and it was more widely spoken.

I lived in Dublin most of the 70’s and got to see Clannad many times, along with the other truly great Irish musicians of the time. It was a golden age of Irish music.

The Nightingale brought me here...I was lucky enough to have seen it twice in a theater

There's a manga called the Girl from the other side: Siúil a Rún. Its a beautiful manga and fits the theme of the song it referenced in the title

Irish Gaelic is simply too heartbreakingly beautiful for this world...!

Wonderful! Irish, don't let your eautiful language dissapear! Please, teach your children Irish. Greetings from Bulgaria.

I have loved traditional Irish music since its revival in the 1970s. It seemed to throb with the pathos of the beleaguered remnant of the Celtic world. I sought out translations of them and realized that often they were of an age so remote that they were full of tales of druidic shape shifting. Sometimes even in translation that Gaelic is entirely metaphor. The largest ethic origin in Wisconsin is Irish. In 1972 I played some of the music for my then aged grandfather. He laughed. He recalled the Irish settlers from the hills above the flatlands along Lake Michigan driving in silence their herds to the pig fair and recalled them drunk as lords singing dancing to the pipes, fiddles and drums on the return trip. He loved it. I heard several generations of Dega and Clanad veterans play at Irish Fest in Milwaukee Wisconsin in 2016 shortly after the death of an uncle a long time member of Clanad. They sang his favorite tune, Harry's Song to Irish harp, fiddle, penny whistle, bodran and the small pipes. It was stunningly beautiful and so heartfelt that much of the audience was in tears. Then it was off to the sports bar on the festival grounds to watch video of the local Hurley club while listening to a trio of musicians playing tunes considerably more stiringly lively than the slow sweet airs I so love. Yet they fit perfectly with the video of a game as much like meley combat as you would want see. Ah the Irish.

This makes me want to visit Ireland, go to a pub and just set and relax while listening to this amazing music

Respect to our history from the Celts of Eire, Alba , Agus Cmyru. Let's not forget our past. It's time for Saoirse, Soar.

I’ve never cried more hearing a song in my entire life

This song is soooo addictive. Can't stop listening to it.🇦🇺♥️🇮🇪

I just found this one particularly useful for an assignment in my choir class in which we had to select foreign language songs to share and translate! Thank you so much for making these translations!

Irish songs are fire! Greetings from Greece ♥️

I play irish songs with tin whistle, impractising👍🥰 im from Spain

Discovered this beautiful song with The Girl From The Other Side manga. The lyrics at the beginning had been reused in the insert song of the OVA by Wit Studio. Very cool reference and nice musical discovery.

I don’t know if this makes sense but Irish truly sounds like nature’s language

the manga "the girl from the other side" led me here, and I'm so happy it did

I wish I was on yonder hill 'Tis there I'd sit and cry my fill And every tear would turn a mill Is go dté tú mo mhuirnín slán 遠くの丘に行って 思いっきり泣きたい 涙で水車が回るほどに Chorus Siúil, siúil, siúil a rún Siúil go socair agus siúil go ciúin Siúil go doras agus éalaigh liom Is go dté tú mo mhúirnín slán ＜コーラス＞ 行って　愛しい人よ そっと静かに出て行って ドアまで行ったら　私を連れて逃げて どうぞご無事で　愛しい人よ I'll sell my rod, I'll sell my reel I'll sell my only spinning wheel To buy my love a sword of steel Is go dté tú mo mhúirnín slán 糸巻き棒も糸巻きも　糸車も売るわ 愛しい人に鋼の剣を買うために I'll dye my petticoats, I'll dye them red And round the world I'll beg my bread Until my parents shall wish me dead Is go dté tú mo mhúirnín slán コートを染めて　赤く染めて 町中でパンを恵んでもらうわ 親に見放されるぐらいに

My favourite traditional irish song. With love from Greece.

Oh I used to sing this years ago when I was very young, folk guitar in hands. Love it!!!

I’m still so happy to have found this song because of the manga the girl from the other side. It’s so beautiful and so calming to listen to.

eins der schönsten lieder die ich je gehört habe. clannad die gruppe die dieses lied performed durfte ich live erleben in Konstanz am bodensee und ich liebe einfach diese keltischen weisen. musik und texte die direkt ins herz gehen. one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard. clannad i was able to experience the group that performed this song live in constance on lake constance and i just love these celtic tunes. music and lyrics that go straight to the heart.

The proof is in live performance, and there wasn’t anything to tell the listener that this even _was_ a live performance, until the very end. Clannad hasn’t been one of my favorite Irish groups, which is something I can’t explain and I won’t attempt to justify. I keep revisiting certain groups from time to time, keeping an open mind. Personal taste is an alchemy in the heart, and if a sound doesn’t fit, it doesn’t, but this song hit whang! In the gold. Beautifully expressed lyrics, tightly played, with difficult, darkly shaded vocal harmonies (my favorite) coming out of nowhere and leaving. Very moving!

This song has a deeper meaning for me... my love is military and has been gone 10 months, we are gonna elope next week when we finally see each other...

I am captivated by the beautiful Irish songs. Melodies and voices touch my heart.

Such a strange language. I just love the Irish soul. Very similar melancholy to Slavic. One Eire

Always puts a smile on my face even though my heart feels like it has a black ring around it. What a beautiful voice she has.

Heard many versions but this is IT for me....it needs a woman's voice rather then a girl's....so beautiful.....

I've listened to this so many times I can finally sing the chorus after 9 days with no prior knowledge of Gaelic.

For the first time. I cry so hard I couldn't stop my tear my face full with tear and my body feel numb. I can hear and feel the feeling of the one whom sing this song.

Haunting and beautiful. A song that truly defines what "love" is. I'm certain the kind of devotion shown in these lyrics still exists, it just doesn't seem as prevalent today as it was in olden times.

Wish I lived near my grandmother. She’s fluent in Gaelic and I’d love to learn more about it.

Beautiful song, wonderful singer and instrumentalist. I’ve always loved Clannad for the tenderness, intimacy and profound soulful emotion they express. She has a voice that seems to float into eternity. At times in my life of sorrow and perturbation, I’ve turned to their music for solace, because it takes me to a beautiful place, a place where my heart would wish to be.

I love your channel, it's so useful to me :) I love Gaelic songs, so, now, l can sing along thanks to the lyrics. Thank you again, M. Máire Ní Shúilleabháin ☺

A beautiful and moving song that I've heard performed hundreds of times. Possibly this is the best version I've ever heard.

NEVER stop this beautiful language!!!!!!! I lOOOOOOOOOOOOOOve it

This song is so perfect for the tragic film The Nightingale. Beautifully rendered.

Just after sending my girls off to their first day of school. I'm weping her thinking of the future. God has assured me with signs that it is bright for those who have discernment. This song comforted me, thank you 🙏💜

Incredibly beautiful

Took me a hot minute to recognize where I'd heard this tune before - a recording by Pete Seeger of another version of this song under the alternative title "Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier" from the 60's. So much American folk music has its roots in Ireland, it's not surprising.

my Dads side is Irish and i'm also writing on the language of the Irish and how its slowly dying out presenting in a form of an archive for one of my papers at university , i myself live in England but my family are Irish and Scottish , I was never told about the language or the history and its sad , so i have decided to connect to this part of my heritage(Irish) and its so beautiful and inspiring .

Thank you for sharing this! Clannad's version has always been my favorite.

I stumbled across this beautiful song and I've listened to it often enough that I actually sing it half way decently. It's beautiful and tragic. As sad as it is, it's so calming that I sing it to myself in the evening while making my tea.

Honestly feeling nostalgic about going into looking for songs that I remembered from choir the past years and man this one specifically was some of my favorites especially when you have the all guy and girl parts together makes it sound even more tragic and sad. I’m glad I came across this it’s quite nice

I always so loved hearing Pete Seeger sing this song. Nice to hear this version

Such a sad song 😢

I much prefer this version.

I was lucky enough to visit Ireland back in 2015 and I absolutely fell in love with it. I hope I can visit it again someday soon.

Thank you! This is one of my favorite songs ever!

You know, now I want to marry an Irishman and teach my kids to speak Irish ☘️ Thank you so much!

The members of Clannad are siblings and cousins. They grew up in Gweedore, Co. Donegal in an Irish speaking family. When the Brits outlawed the Irish language ( on pain of death) they had to issue the proclamation in Irish because few people spoke English.

There’s a song that was popular in early America that is descended from this song called johnnys gone for a soldier, I believe it was Scottish in origin and was brought to the mountains by them

99 people are clueless to what beautiful music is

What a lovely song!

I love this song ❄️

I really libe this song I used to hear after work in my room when I feel homesick when I was in UAE. I don't understand it but it touches my feelings that i cry every time i hear this song

Years of listening to this and loving it, but not knowing it’s meaning. Thanks so much;)

would not be surprised if Hanging Tree was inspired by the chorus of this song. Such a good melody.

Good group, have a few of their records - yep, am that old.

Beautiful...

Thank you so much I was looking for this amazing song for so so long you truly made my weekend thank you again 💚🤍💛☘️

Beautiful song

Gorgeous music 💚🍀💚

Good luck with Uni work! I'm rooting for you. Thank you for making these and translating/posting them so we can hear them.

Go raibh maith a gat!!! Wonderful tune, sure I loved too much!!!

Bellísima

This song is eternally beautiful.

And I've cried...

😢 Reminds me of. My partner who died one true love ❤️

i love being an Irishwomen

Gorgeous.

Stunning x

Anybody here after watching "the nightingale"? AMAZING AMAZING film! Not for the faint of heart. But such an incredible story.

Clannad are always great, Sweeting and soothing

This is by far the best version out there.

Lovely ❤

Yayyyyy my song!!!!!😍 Finally😅

Bravoooo!!! ❤👏👏👏👍☺️

Really beautiful ☘️❤️

Thanks!

Thank you,

amazing!

You nailed it

Jimmy's Hall movie brought me here. I cried my eyes out. So much injustices in this World. Love the song even though I am not Irish or English ...

Perfect❤

The Celts of Eire, Alba agus Cymru were buried deep, but as seeds we keep growing stronger. Sadly Cymru and parts of Alba accepted British rule. We Celtic Pagans never will . Slantie agus Saoirse.

Go raibh maith agat 🤗

Folk songs are always perfect in lyrics. Well, every man has his own choice & tastes. Much of the folk song depends on the singer also. Their r many renditions.

So proud to say that I am Irish and Scottish

I came from a movie that i have seen and this song stuck in my head i like it

Holy crap that was LIVE?!

A wonder 💚🍁

Astonishing Irish ballad.

Someday, i want to attend college in Ireland and learn the language of my ancestors... My great grandfather was a stowaway on a cargo ship from ireland, and my grandfather still had his irish voice, just a little. I loved him so much, even though I only knew him the first 7 years of my life. His story of his father hiding in an empty rum barrel fascinated me, and Irish culture is beloved among my family. I'm so Irish that my great granda hid in a barrel of alcohol to get to America. Allegedly, he drank what was left in it.

Me too Enya is a Goddess i love Ireland 🇮🇪🍀

Uncoditonal LOVE