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Chunna Mise mo Leannan

Fieldworkers
Date May 1954
Track ID 19033
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1954.53.B4

Original Tape ID

SA1954.053

Summary

In the three couplets of this waulking song sung here, a woman tells how she saw her lover pass by on a lightly-stepping grey horse, on the previous day. He did not acknowledge her.

Item Notes

3 couplets plus choruses sung.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 3 (J. L Campbell & F. Collinson) p. 156
'An t-Òranaiche' (G. Mac na Ceàrdadh) p. 504
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig) p. 34
'Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia' (Creighton & MacLeod) p. 190
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (M. F. Shaw) Song 90
'Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness' vol. 26 p. 240

Recording Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good