Gealtacht Mael Mórdha Lyrics

My ruination was of my own seed
Mere kingship of the Laighin I coveted
Yet all she coveted was greed,
Each deed she did perform
Was as if my lands had been clove by the Lochlainn's axe

Weak she goaded, weak she scolded
As I did consolidate my borders
From the threat of the foreigner black
Yet Gormlaith ruined that by cuckolding with a Fionngall fat

Leader of the thieves who stole Áth Cliath
Troublesome and lustful of greed
As was the whore herself,
But so was my fate bound ever tighter to hers

Marriage followed marriage,
Ending finally in conflict
Gleann Mama, a time I would like to forget
Rekindled by that usurper's pup

Weak she goaded, weak she scolded
"Brían be more noble than you"
A temper uncontrolled my weakness be
Before I'd recovered, she had laid her trap

Before I had time to return to Naas
She had started this battle of which now I am part
The whore I name her and here be the reason,
Her legs did spread so she would have her way

And so her army consisted of foreigners leering
She had offered herself for that day
What a day, what a day,
Blood fills the rock pools, the dead drift away

Entrails and guts and heads litter the battlefield
Lochlainnaigh ships swept out to sea
By Mac Lír and his minions
And now they cannot flee so now they will join me

This would be amusing if this were sung in verse
By a bard at a kingly fire
Alas it be me Mael Mórdha ranting
I see Mór Ríogán and my own funeral pyre