#ManxMondays is back for another series! Much like the first series, I’ll be releasing a video every Monday on my Facebook and Instagram throughout the month of June. I’ll be sharing new collaborations with Manx artists featuring even more Manx music (and maybe even some dancing!).
I thought I’d kick the new series of with a version of ‘Bee Dty Host’, a beautiful Manx Carval.
'Bee dty host', which translates as 'Hush/Be quiet', borrows its melody from a traditional Manx air called ‘Sooree’. The melody was collected by Dr John Clague in the 1890s from a Mrs Lawson in Jurby East.
It is most well-known as a Manx Carval, which is a Manx version of a carol that stems fron the old Island custom of singing carols in church on Oie'll Verree (Christmas Eve). The words were written by HP Kelly, the High Bailiff on the Isle of Man between 1937–1938, and then translated by Mona Douglas. You might recognise it as ‘Cadlee Ny Moidyn Moirrey’ or 'Lullaby of the Virgin Mary'!
The words to both the Manx Gaelic and English version are below -
