Oh boatman, na ho ro eile

Oh boatman, na ho ro eile

Oh boatman, na ho ro eile

My blessings with you wherever you go

Translation:

Often I look from the highest hill

Hoping to see the boatman

Will you come today, or will you come tomorrow?

And if you do not come at all, desolate will I be.

Rhyming variation:

I climb the mountain and scan the ocean

For thee, my boatman, with fond devotion

When shall I see thee? today? tommorow?

Oh! do not leave me in lonely sorrow

Oh my boatman, na ho ro eila

Oh my boatman, na ho ro eila

Oh my boatman, na ho ro eila

My blessings with you wherever you go