Perhaps not the best example of the utility of the APS search engine, since we can all use the internet to directly find gaelic translations:
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Scottish Gaelic deoch an doruis & Irish deoch an dorais, literally, drink of the door
So the term (and thus the song) refers to what we used to call "one for the road" - the last drink of an evening with friends, served as one went out the door or even on horseback just before setting out. And the singer mentions that his "wee wifey" is waiting; let's hope she's not too mad at him.
Before we had the interwebs I was lucky to have my Scottish grandmother, born in 1902 and who as a girl used to see Sir Harry perform "when ah had a spare copper" (an extra penny) in Glasgow's vaudeville theatres, just a phonecall away for translation services. She's gone now, but lived well past 90.
[today's extra credit quiz question: define "saftest" as used in Harry's "He's The Saftest of the Family"]
But back to the topic, yes, definitely, the APS site just keeps getting better and better...and is an invaluable (and hopefully close to permanent) resource. I believe a lot of us think of, and use, this forum as a similar resource...but it can literally disappear tomorrow from factors out of our control. APS has a more robust guarantee of safety and longevity.
I wonder how easy/feasible it would be to get a backup of the data for this forum. Wayback machine does a variable job of scraping and archiving sites, so it would be a shame to have to rely upon it.