Chunna Mise Mo Leannan
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
November 1965
Track ID
24332
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1965.102.4
Original Tape ID
Summary
In the first three couplets of this waulking song, a woman tells how she saw her lover pass by the previous day on a lightly-stepping grey horse. He did not acknowledge her. The lines which follow have Jacobite references and express the hope that King James will be crowned.
Item Notes
Isolated fragments sung.
See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 3 (Campbell/Collinson) p. 156
'An t-Òranaiche' (Gilleasbaig Mac na Ceàrdadh) p. 504
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig) p. 34
'Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia' (Creighton/MacLeod) p. 190
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (M. F. Shaw) song 90
'Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness' vol. 26, p. 240
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Poor