Chailin Òig as Stiùramaiche
Track Information
Original Track ID
CW0026B.114
Original Tape ID
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
Collection
Source Type
Wire
Audio Quality
Good