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Cha Tèid Mise Cha Tèid Mi

Date 1956
Track ID 102139
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1956.26.A2

Original Tape ID

SA1956.026

Summary

The composer of this waulking says that she will not go with the joiner's son or the factor's son. She already has a man she loves. He is a hunter. In the following section, the composer curses love. She describes what it has done to her.

Item Notes

Transcribed in the School of Scottish Studies.

See:
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig ed., 1949) p. 19
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 1 (John L. Campbell & F. Collinson eds., 1969) p. 140

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - South Uist

Island - South Uist

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good