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Mo Rùn Ailean hó hò

Contributors
Date June 1965
Track ID 107785
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1965.54.1

Original Tape ID

SA1965.054

Summary

This waulking song has three separate sections, and the chorus vocables change after the first section. In the opening section, the composer describes how she looked into the distance and saw her lover's ship. He was at the helm. The second section contains interesting references to waulking. In the final section the composer tells of her pregnancy, and defends it by saying that the father of her child is of noble birth.

Item Notes

See:
'Scottish Tradition' vol. 3 (The School of Scottish Studies)
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (Margaret Fay Shaw ed., 1955) p. 240
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig ed., 1949) p. 39

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good