Chunna Mise mo Leannan
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
May 1954
Track ID
19033
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1954.53.B4
Original Tape ID
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
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good