The Hearth Harpers - Gráinne Mhaol | Winds of Wander

Grace O'Malley, the pirate queen of Clew Bay, who sailed to Greenwich in 1593 to speak with Elizabeth I. "Gráinne Mhaol" by The Hearth Harpers, from the radio of Winds of Wander, made for the game with Suno. Winds of Wander is an age-of-sail trading and adventure game on the real coasts of the world, from 1402 to 1799. In development, by one maker. All the music, with the words and translations: https://windsofwander.com/music/ Lyrics My father was Ó Máille, and his ships were on Clew Bay, and when he would not take a girl to sea, I cut my hair away; so they called me Gráinne Mhaol, the cropped one, and I did not mind the name, for I stood upon my father's deck at twelve, and I never went back the same. Gráinne Mhaol, Gráinne Mhaol, bean Chuan Mó, is leatsa an fharraige ó Chliara go deo! Gráinne Mhaol, Gráinne Mhaol, from Rockfleet to the sea, pay your toll to the woman of Clew Bay, or you'll never pass her free! They married me to Dónal of the Battles, and he gave me sons and died, and I kept his castles and his galleys, and I kept the Connacht side; and then to Richard of the Iron, for a year and for a day, and when the year was out I locked his tower, and from the window called: "I dismiss you. Go away." My son was born upon my ship, and the next day came a Turk, a corsair out of Barbary, and my men were slow to work; so I came up from below in a blanket with a blunderbuss in my hand, and I said, "Can you not do without me for one day?" and we took her, and I called him Tibbot-na-Long. Gráinne Mhaol, Gráinne Mhaol, bean Chuan Mó, is leatsa an fharraige ó Chliara go deo! Gráinne Mhaol, Gráinne Mhaol, from Rockfleet to the sea, pay your toll to the woman of Clew Bay, or you'll never pass her free! Then Bingham came to Connacht with the queen's commission and the rope, he took my cattle, took my son, took my brother and my hope; and every ship from Galway to the Hebrides was told to hunt me down, so I did what no man of them dared: I sailed for London town. In the September of ninety-three I stood at Greenwich in the hall, an old woman of the sea before a queen, and both of us stood tall; she had no Irish and I'd no English, so we spoke in Latin, slow, and she gave me back my son and my brother, and the Bingham man was told to go. : Two queens. One of them had better ships. I am old now at Rockfleet, and the galleys ride below, and the Spaniard and the Englishman and the Turk all come and go; and whoever sails Clew Bay without a word to me or mine will find my ships across his bow, and he will strike, and he will pay the fine. Gráinne Mhaol, Gráinne Mhaol, bean Chuan Mó, is leatsa an fharraige ó Chliara go deo! Gráinne Mhaol, Gráinne Mhaol, from Rockfleet to the sea, pay your toll to the woman of Clew Bay, or you'll never pass her free! Gráinne Mhaol, Gráinne Mhaol, bean Chuan Mó, is leatsa an fharraige ó Chliara go deo! Gráinne Mhaol, Gráinne Mhaol, from Rockfleet to the sea, pay your toll to the woman of Clew Bay, or you'll never pass her free! In English Gráinne Mhaol, Gráinne Mhaol, bean Chuan Mó: Gráinne Mhaol, woman of Clew Bay (Cuan Mó is Clew Bay in Irish). is leatsa an fharraige ó Chliara go deo: the sea is yours from Clare Island (Cliara) for ever. (Gráinne Mhaol: "Grace the cropped", from the hair she is said to have cut off to sail with her father, Eoghan Dubhdara Ó Máille. Dónal an Chogaidh Ó Flaithbheartaigh, "Dónal of the Battles", was her first husband; Richard Bourke, "Richard-an-Iarainn", her second, whose Rockfleet (Carraig an Chabhlaigh) castle on Clew Bay she kept and died in about 1603; the "I dismiss you" and the blunderbuss are the family legends, told as legends. Tibbot-na-Long, "Theobald of the Ships", was born at sea in 1567. Sir Richard Bingham was governor of Connacht. She met Elizabeth I at Greenwich in September 1593 and they spoke Latin.) #WindsOfWander #GameMusic #AgeOfSail