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The Mermaid is “An Mhaighdean Mhara” in Irish. It was translated into English by Paddy Tunney, and Brigid Tunney was the first to record the translated version. I learned it from Rita Gallagher’s recording on her album May Morning Dew, though it was hearing my friend Armand Aromin sing it at one of our gigs last summer that inspired me to do so.

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It seems you’ve withered and forsaken sport
The snow is higher along the port
Your mouth mellifluous and your ringlets gold,
You’re weary, Mary Kinney, and the Erne is cold.

Oh, faithful mother, cried her daughter fair
I’ve searched the seashore and the rocks bone bare
But my mermaid mother I failed to find
You were swimming the Erne through the wave and wind.

I am so weary as night turns day
With my Mary and Patrick, I’d feign to stay
On the crest of the billow through froth and foam
Pity poor Mary Kinney in her watery home.

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from My Mind From Love Being Free, released May 1, 2015

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Lindsay Straw Boston, Massachusetts

Traditional folk singer, guitarist & bouzouki player.

"Hearken(s) back to more innocent times, of Greenwich Village and pure folk." - The Living Tradition

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