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Chunna Mise Mo Leannan

Date November 1965
Track ID 24332
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1965.102.4

Original Tape ID

SA1965.102

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

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Poor