"Oró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile"

The version we have appears to be in G (on a 'D' Whistle?), but none of the versions I have seen yet are in that key (typically C or D). So I had to do it myself;

According to the Fiddler's Companion, this is;

"A hauling home song. The 'hauling home' was bringing home the bride to her husband's house after marriage. It was usually a month or so after the wedding, and was celebrated as an occasion next only in importance to the wedding itself. The bridegroom brought home his bride at the head of a triumphal procession‑‑all on cars or on horseback. I well remember one where the bride rode on a pillion behind her husband. As they enter the house the bridegroom is supposed to speak or sing:‑‑

Oro, se do bheatha a bhaile, is fearr liom tu na cead bo bainne:
Oro, se do bheatha a bhaile, tha tu maith le ratha.
(Oro, welcome home, I would rather have you than a hundred milch cows:
 Oro, welcome home, 'tis you are happy with prosperity [in store for you]).

Here is Mr. Hogan's note on this air:‑‑'This song used to be played at the 'Hauling Home', or the bringing home of a wife. The piper, seated outside the house at the arrival of the party, playing 'hard' (i.e. with great spirit): nearly all who were at the wedding a month previous being in the procession. Oh, for the good old times!' This tune is called in Stanford‑Petrie an 'ancient clan march': and it is set in the Major, with many accidentals, but another setting is given in the Minor. I give it here as Mr. Hogan wrote it, in its proper Minor form. In several particulars this setting differs from Dr. Petrie's two versions. It was a march tune, as he calls it: but the March was home to the husband's house. Dr. Petrie does not state where he procured his two versions" (Joyce). See Bayard's (1944) extensive note for "Bonaparte Crossing the Alps" for more on this tune family. Bayard maintains that the tune was used for a number of purposes, and not only the ones that Joyce identified. Words by Padraic Pearse (see below) refer to a welcome home to Irish exiles who might take part in the 1916 uprising, according to John Loesberg.

'Se do bheatha, 'bhean ba leanmhar!
Ba e ar greach tu bheith I ngei-bheann,
Do dhuiche bhrea I seilibh meirleach,
Stu diolta leis na Galla.

Oro, se do bheatha 'bhaile 
B'fhear liom tu na cead bo bhainne,
Oro, se do bheatha 'bhaile, 
'Nois ar threacht an tsamhraidh
(Loesberg,Folksongs & Ballads Popular in Ireland, 1979).

See also "Bringing Home the Bride." Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song) 1909; No. 275, pgs. 130‑131."

And some stuff from a forum on the Mudcat Cafe (Digital Traditions);