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Song Name: Oro Se Do Bheatha 'Bhaile By: Sinead O'Connor Dubliners
Posted By: GaelicFisher Difficulty: Beginner
Key: Any Genre: Celtic
Harp Type: Diatonic
Created: 2018-02-20 14:00:34 Modified: 2018-03-07 15:34:44


Song:

Oro Se Do Bheatha 'Bhaile - Traditional

Sinead O'Connor, The Dubliners, Etc.

Rough Phonetics below.

This is Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic) a branch of the Goidelic (Gaelic) branch of Insular Celtic languages along with Gaidhlig (Scottish) Gaelg (Manx) and Gaidhlig na h-Albainn Nuaidhe (Nova Scotian Scottish Gaelic).

The other branch is Brythonic (British) which includes Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Patagonian (Argentinian) Welsh.

-6 -6 6.  -6 -7.     -6.   6.     5

Oro se do bheatha 'bhaile

6. 6.  6. 6.  6.      -4.   5.     6

Oro se do bheatha 'bhaile

-6 -6 6 -6.   -7.    -6.   -7.    -8

Oro se do bheatha 'bhaile

-8 8.     -7. -8.          -7. -6.       -6

Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh

 

Phonetic Pronunciation:

Oro Shay dough VA ha wawlya

Anish our hawkt an towree

(Dough as in cookie dough)

(Our as in our language)

(Hawkt the K is a gutteral sound like in Hebrew or German)

(Towree Tow as in saying Ow that hurts)

 

I myself am from Alba Nuadh (Nova Scotia) or New Scotland and I have Gaidhlig in my background as do many others in this small nation. It is one of the founding cultures along with the indigenous Mi 'kmaq, Acadian-French and African.