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Sneachda Ga Chur air na Beannan

Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date 03 August 1956
Track ID 15051
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1956.76.1

Original Tape ID

SA1956.076

Summary

This waulking song begins "There is snow on the mountains. / The wind has frozen it to the trees." The composer expresses the hope that the son of the earl will send her a message. She tells how her mother wants to marry her to a dun-coloured old man, who is blind and deaf. The final lines are addressed to Cameron of Lochiel from Lochaber, in whose arms the woman longs to be.

Item Notes

20 lines sung.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 2 (J. L. Campbell and F. Collinson) p. 72
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig) p. 42

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good