Cad tá uait? What do you want? Cad tá ag teastáil uait? What do you need? (Cad tá ort - what's wrong with you?!) Airím uaim mo chairde - I miss my friends. Is fada liom uaim í - I miss her a lot (despite what you see in the usual transations - see fada)
The song is in the Ulster dialect. Cha dtéim is Ulster Irish for ní théim (I don't go) (cha = ní, chan = níl).
There are some conditionals, and a past habitual, so the grammar isn't totally for beginners. But the chorus is pretty easy:
Is fada liom uaim í, uaim í (I miss her, miss her a lot)
Is fada liom uaim í ó d'imigh sí (I miss her since she went away)
Is fada liom thíos agus thuas í (I miss her below and above (everywhere))
Molly na gcuach Ní Chuilleanáin (Molly of the curls Cullinane)
As usual, there are lots of very different versions of this song. A popular one is Altan's, although it's hard to get her lyrics a lot of the time. Danú did a nice more traditional rendition. There are more! There's even a crazy parody version...#12...
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