”A little song to get you started learning the Gaelic”
Lyrics and Music by Richie Kavanagh.
Chorus
‘This is a song about an Irish dictionary’
‘That’s right, a word book, a focal leabhair”
Oh get out your focal leabhair, get out your focal leabhair.
And we’ll have you speaking Irish in a half an hour.
Sea means yes and Níl means no.
Get out your focal leabhair and we’ll all have a go.
The sweets that you chaw, there called a milseáin.
A motorcar used to be a gluaisteán.
Tíg is house and doras is door.
Buy a focal leabhair and you’ll learn a lot more.
Chorus
Oh get out your focal leabhair, get out your focal leabhair.
And we’ll have you speaking Irish in a half an hour.
Sea means yes and Níl means no.
Get out your focal leabhair and we’ll all have a go.
If someone says to you, Conas ate tú?
What they’re saying in English is, how are you?
Slán leat is how you say goodbye.
Amoch faoin spéir, is under the sky,
Chorus
Oh get out your focal leabhair, get out your focal leabhair.
And we’ll have you speaking Irish in a half an hour.
Sea means yes and Níl means no.
Get out your focal leabhair and we’ll all have a go.
In school if you ever wanted to go to the loo.
This bit of Irish will be handy to you.
Cad a gum dul amach, ma se do hulla.
The teacher’s asleep, Tá an múinteoir ina chodladh.
Chorus
Oh get out your focal leabhair, get out your focal leabhair.
And we’ll have you speaking Irish in a half an hour.
Sea means yes and Níl means no.
Get out your focal leabhair and we’ll all have a go.
“Hay lad, do you see this?
A bathroom is a seomra folctha”
“A what?” “seomrc folctha”
“Will you hold your whist Johnny,
Or you’ll get us all in trouble again”.
If you don’t know the girl that you’re dancing with.
Just ask her her name, Cad is ainm duit?
When you leave her home and she holds you tight.
Oíche mhaith, is how you say good night.
Chorus
Oh get out your focal leabhair, get out your focal leabhair.
And we’ll have you speaking Irish in a half an hour.
Sea means yes and Níl means no.
Get out your focal leabhair and we’ll all have a go.
About the Song,…. Irish Book / Focal Leabhair.
‘This is a song,about an Irish dictionary.
‘That’s right, a word book, a focal leabhair.
”A little song to get you started learning the Gaelic”