What to have for our earworm when it’s Saint
Patrick’s Day in Women’s History Month? Hmm.
Let’s have Sissel singing “Siúil A Rún” on The
Chieftains’ Tears of Stone album. Sissel’s Norwegian, but the song is
Irish. Plus: The Chieftains.
Actually, the song has made its way throughout
the English-speaking folk world. Possibly because the theme of a young woman whose
love is called away to war vowing to do whatever it takes to keep him safe is
so universal.
The closing line of each verse translates to “may you go safely,
my darling.”
It could have been sung in the Peloponnesian War, and they might be singing it in Ukraine even as you listen.
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