Once You Were My Lover

[Kimberly AJ]

Hey, folks, I've listened to the whole song. Do you remember the lyrics? I just remember that the intro is a bit slow.

[Gerard]

Well, here are the original breton lyrics :

http://per.kentel.pagesperso-orange.fr/martold1.htm

I must say that Meav did a very good job translating them. Here they are :

9.Once you were my lover
Méav / Craig Leon.  Based on the traditional Breton folk song ‘Tri Martolod’.
Peermusic UK


Tri Martolod so young tra la la, la la la la
Tri Martolod so young they sailed away to sea
Tri Martolod so young tra la la, la la la la
Tri Martolod so young they set sail from Brittany


A storm began as they set sail
The waves swelled high around them
The winds were strong,
The journey long
They landed in Newfoundland.

They anchored down beside a mill
And met a girl who worked there
She said to one “ I know you well
For once you were my lover -

A ring you bought in Nantes for me
And promised we would marry
I waited for a year or more
Why so long did you tarry?”

‘I was, they said, too poor to wed
And could no longer see you,
One day, three martolod, we fled -
The storm it blew us to you”


“Your destiny is here with me
Our love will always feed us -
We’ll live like birds so wild and free
Wherever life may lead us!”

[Kimberly AJ]

Thanks, Gerard, I think Méav might've adaptated this tune.

[Emer Dreamer]

Well, here are the original breton lyrics :

http://per.kentel.pagesperso-orange.fr/martold1.htm

I must say that Meav did a very good job translating them. Here they are :

9.Once you were my lover
Méav / Craig Leon.  Based on the traditional Breton folk song ‘Tri Martolod’.
Peermusic UK


Tri Martolod so young tra la la, la la la la
Tri Martolod so young they sailed away to sea
Tri Martolod so young tra la la, la la la la
Tri Martolod so young they set sail from Brittany


A storm began as they set sail
The waves swelled high around them
The winds were strong,
The journey long
They landed in Newfoundland.

They anchored down beside a mill
And met a girl who worked there
She said to one “ I know you well
For once you were my lover -

A ring you bought in Nantes for me
And promised we would marry
I waited for a year or more
Why so long did you tarry?”

‘I was, they said, too poor to wed
And could no longer see you,
One day, three martolod, we fled -
The storm it blew us to you”


“Your destiny is here with me
Our love will always feed us -
We’ll live like birds so wild and free
Wherever life may lead us!”

    I agree  with  you  Gerard ...Meav  is  usually  quite  thorough when  it  comes  to  researching what  she  sings. I  noticed  that she  often tends  toward the  more traditional rendering  of  a  song, when  there  is  a  choice  to  be made.  Another  case  in  point  would  be  the  reference  notes  she  offers  us  on  the jacket  cover of  her "Silver  Sea "   CD.   Very  erudite  is  our  Lovely  Lark.   

[Kimberly AJ]

It's hard to know who plays the tambourine in this song.

[Emer Dreamer]

It's hard to know who plays the tambourine in this song.

  ....maybe  it's  the  very  small   print  of  the  jacket  cover of  her  new  CD...I'll  have  to  look later.   

[Kimberly AJ]

I really am in a jam this time!