Once You Were My Lover - Méav

Tri Martolodso 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!»