Gur Tu Mo Nighean Donn Bhòidheach
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
June 1955
Track ID
20627
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1955.87.B11
Original Tape ID
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
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good