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Gur Tu mo Nighean Donn Bhòidheach

Date April 1955
Track ID 19471
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1955.61.4

Original Tape ID

SA1955.061

Summary

This popular waulking song is in the form of a man's love song, in which he praises the fair-haired girl with whom he is in love. He will go anywhere with her.

Item Notes

10 couplets sung. Full 3-line choruses at the beginning and end, and after two of the couplets. Single-line choruses after the others.

See:
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (M. F. Shaw) Song 86

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good