A Londonderry Air
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A Londonderry Air ist die Nationalhymne von Nordirland. Der Text wurde erstmals 1855 schriftlich veröffentlicht.
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- Would God I were the tender apple blossom
- That floats and falls from off the twisted bough
- To lie and faint within your silken bosom
- Within your silken bosom as that does now.
- Or would I were a little burnish'd apple
- For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold
- While sun and shade you robe of lawn will dapple
- Your robe of lawn, and you hair's spun gold.
- Yea, would to God I were among the roses
- That lean to kiss you as you float between
- While on the lowest branch a bud uncloses
- A bud uncloses, to touch you, queen.
- Nay, since you will not love, would I were growing
- A happy daisy, in the garden path
- That so your silver foot might press me going
- Might press me going even unto death.
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Die Melodie wird auch für das volkstümliche Lied Danny Boy verwendet und ist durch dieses sehr bekannt geworden.
Hörbeispiel A Londonderry Air (9 kB) ?/i
