From the recording Celtic Lamentations, Healing for Twelve Months And A Day….
This song is presented as a conversation between Mary and Jesus, primarily in question form. Jesus comforts Mary by saying that "we must all carry our own cross." The key idea is that children must meet their own destiny, and parents cannot protect or isolate them from their path.
Lyrics
(Lament of the Three Marys)
Recite this RESPONSE after each line
Ochón agus ochón ó
Response in Phonetics: “O Ko-wn ees, O ko-wn Oh”
A Pheadair, a aspail, an bhfaca tú mo ghrá geal?
ResponseChonaic mé ar ball é i láthair a namhad.
Response
Cé hé and fear breá sin ar chrann na páise? Response
An é nach n-aithníonn tú do mhac a mhaithrín? Response
An é sin an maicín a d’iompair mé trí ráithe? Response
An é sin an maicín a rugadh ins an stábla? Response
Nó an é sin an maicín a hoileadh in ucht Mháire?
Response
N´an í sin an tsleá a chuaigh trí do lár geal? Response
An é sin an casúr a bhuail tríot na tairní? Response
An é sin an coróin spíonta a chauigh ar do mhullach álainn?
Response
Mhaise éist, a mháthrín, agus ná bí cráite Response