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Hop-tu-naa is a Celtic festival celebrated on the Isle of Man on October 31. It marks the beginning of Samhain, a Gaelic holiday celebrating the end of harvest and beginning of winter. (source)
Lyrics
(Folk song from the Isle of Man)
Hop-tu-naa,*
This is old Hollantide night,
Trol-la-laa,*
The moon shines bright,
Hop-tu-naa,
Trol-la-laa.
*pronounced “hop-too-nay” and “trol-lah-lay”
See also
- Country: Isle of Man
- Subject: Halloween / Hop-tu-Naa
- Melody: repeated tones / low so
- Meter: 6/8
- Scale: tritonic
- Tones: dms
- Source: Manx Ballads, A.W.Moore M.A., 1896
- Song with chords (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
