Maidin is tús an lae

Is fágaim mo bhaile

Tá mo chroíse go brón

Is fad ar shiúl m'óige

Oíche is mé liom féin

Spéartha dubh go domhain, a choích

Ag cuimhneach ar laethanta a bhí

Gan ghá agus gan ghruaim

Eistim leis an ghaoth

Uaigneas mór, go deo, a choích

Deireadh an turas mór

Táim brónach, buartha 's briste

I mo dhiaidh nach mbeidh níos mó

Ach, tá sé I ndán dúinn, a pháistí

Is fada anois an lá

A d'fhág mé mo bhaile

Níl áthas I mo chroí

Níl ann ach an marbh.

(translation:

And I leave my home

Morning and the day's beginning

And I leave my home

My heart is breaking

My youth is long past

Night and I am alone

Endless deep black skies

Remembering days that were

Without want and without gloom

I listen to the wind

Endless great loneliness forever

The end of the long journey

I am sad, sorrowful, broken

After me there will be no more (of my kind)

But children, it is our destiny

The day is long past

When I left my home

There is no hope in my heart

There is only death )