The Annotated Orinoco Flow

Orinoco Flow is a whimsical song, which is sung by Enya on her album Watermark. The song makes references to many exotic sounding places throughout the world. If the impetus of the song was to cause one to have a to desire to travel to these places, then it has certainly succeeded.

Canan nan Gaidheal

Canan nan Gaidheal is a song written by Murdo MacFarlane in the early 1970's. The song describes the Gaelic language with its legendary history and strength and, more recently, its current decline into obscurity. This page will provide you with the lyrics in Scottish Gaelic with an English translation and some history of the song.

I have not researched to determine how many versions of this song have been recorded. The only two I know of are the version by the group Tannas and the other by Scottish Women.While both versions are very well done, my preference is for the former.

Neither group sings all the verses. Tannas sings verses 1, 3 and 6. Scottish Women sing verses 1, 4, 2 and 6 (in that order).

In 1993, Tom Thomson posted a translation to the Gaelic Language Bulletin Board. He also provided some notes. The entire post is here in its entirety without editing. Full credit is attributed to Mr. Thomson.

Numa Numa

Numa Numa is a video that hit the internet in December 2004. The video depicts a then 18 year old Gary Brolsma miming the words, while he dances in his chair, to the song "Dragostea din tei". The original song by the Moldovan band O-Zone was recorded in Bulgarian. The phrase "numa, numa" is contained in the song, hence the English title Numa Numa.