Ellan Vannin (poem) - The Bee Gees Version

The Bee Gees Version

The Bee Gees recorded a version for Isle of Man charities. They also included the song in their world-tour as a show of pride in the place of their birth.

When the summer day is over,

Its busy cares have flown,

I will sit beneath the starlight,

With a weary heart alone.

Then it rises like a vision

Sparkling bright it shines for me

My own dear Ellan Vannin

With its green hills by the sea

Let me hear the ocean murmur

Let me watch your stormy sky

Then above the emerald waters

Sings the seagull as she flies

Then arising like a vision

Sparkling bright it shines for me

My own dear Ellan Vannin

With its green hills by the sea

And in all my times of sorrow

And on some lonely shore

I'll go back to Ellan Vannin

To my childhood days once more