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Gur Tu Mo Nighean Donn Bhòidheach

Fieldworkers
Date June 1955
Track ID 20627
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1955.87.B11

Original Tape ID

SA1955.087

Summary

This popular waulking song is in the form of a man's love song, in which the composer says he would go anywhere with the girl he loves. He has heard a story, however, that she has become betrothed to someone else.

Item Notes

14 couplets sung plus (3-line) choruses. Transcribed in the School of Scottish Studies.

See:
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (M.F.Shaw) Song 86
'MacDonald Collection of Gaelic Poetry' p. 209
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K.C.Craig) p. 109
'Gesto Collection (K. N. MacDonald) p. 53

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good