File: wilsonteresa06group-oh-gaelicsinging_M.mp3
Speakers:
TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson
TW: When Jim would come to our place we'd see him coming. We'd get all geared up a whole bunch of kids. "Sing a song for us Jim." First he'd say, "No!." Then, the next thing you know, "How about singing that Gaelic Song?"
[Note – have a Gaelic speaker change the phonetic renderings below to real Gaelic}
Teresa Wilson Sings [phonetic rendition]:
Chay tair-hee to-ah fox-a-coss-a-kee
And a chay tair-hee to-ah fah [etc.]
TW: That's all I remember. But there was one my mother used to sing.
Teresa Wilson Sings [phonetic rendition]:
Ster-em Sheers Ste-rem Shaws
Ar ab-uv-the Rury Yackum [etc.]
TW: Lame Malcomb
Teresa Wilson sings Gaelic Song, Calum Crubach
[phonetic rendition]
Calum Crubach hans a glyn
Cum ta na-ka ray hag-gin [etc,]
Teresa Wilson sings same song in English
Lame Malcolm in the Glen
Keep your sheep over yonder
Lame Malcolm in the Glen
Keep your sheep there
Though you're blind in one eye you can see with your good one
Though you're blind in one eye you can see with the other
Teresa Wilson sings last two lines in Gaelic
