Fosgail an doras agus leig a-staigh mi!

by Pàdruig Morrison and James Stewart

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Òran ùr 2020/2021
A new Hogmanay song for 2020/2021, based on a traditional rhyme

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Fosgail an Doras (agus leig a-staigh mi!)

Tha mise nochd a’ tighinn dh’ur n-ionnsaigh
A dh’ùrachadh dhuibh na Callaig;
Cha ruig mi leas a bhith ga innse,
Bha i ann ri linn mo sheanar.
Fosgail an doras, is lig a staigh mi! x2

Mo chaisean Callaig na mo phòcaid,
’S math an ceò thig às,
Théid e deiseal air na pàisdean,
agus bean an taighe.
Fosgail an doras, is lig a staigh mi! x2

Bean an taighe is i as fhiach e,
Làmh a riarachadh na Callaig.
Rud beag do shochair an t-samhraidh
A’ cumail geall air an aran.
Fosgail an doras, is lig a staigh mi! x4

Translation

Open the door
(taken from the Gaelic Hogmanay rhyme)

I am coming to-night to you
To renew for you Hogmanay.
I have no need to tell you of it,
It existed in the time of my grandfather;
My Hogmanay skin-strip is in my pocket
And good is the smoke that comes from it.
It will go sun-wise round the children
And especially round the housewife.
’Tis the housewife who deserves it,
Hers is the hand for the ‘Hogmanay’.
A small thing of the good things of summer (e.g. butter)
To keep a promise got with the bread.
Open the door and let me in!

Pàdruig Moireasdan 12/20

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released December 16, 2020
words and music written by Pàdruig Morrison based on a traditional Scottish Gaelic Hogmanay rhyme

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