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Chailin Òig as Stiùramaiche

Date 29 December 1949
Track ID 21623
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0026B.114

Original Tape ID

CW0026B

Summary

The text falls into several sections. After the introductory lines in which a dairymaid says she should have a herdsman, there is a description of a meeting with a brown-haired woman, who makes impossible requests. In the following section the singer says that she lay with fever for a year and a quarter, and that when she arose, the brown-haired woman came to see her. The next section involves a shinty game, and the final one gives opinions on the characters of women.

Item Notes

33 lines sung plus single-line choruses. This song appears to be a ballad adapted as a waulking song, and its chorus line is possibly what Pistol is referring to in his words "Calen o custure me" in Shakespeare's "Henry V".

Recorded at Chapelhouse, Castlebay from the Vibrator Convertor at a ceilidh arranged by the Barra Folklore Committee.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' Vol. 2 (J. L. Campbell and F. Collinson eds. 1977) p. 44
'An t-Òranaiche' (G. Mac na Ceàrdadh) p. 21

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Barra

Island - Barra

Village/Place - Castlebay

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good