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Dhìrich Mi Suas a' Bheinn Ghruamach

Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date 31 October 1950
Track ID 26384
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0107A.474

Original Tape ID

CW0107A

Summary

In this waulking song the composer describes her grief as the man she loves has rejected her. He was seen the previous day. She describes how he was dressed; he was going hunting. She knows that though she had such a great love for him, her lack of wealth meant he would never take her.

Item Notes

23 lines sung.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 1, no. xiii

Other versions:
'An Gàidheal' iv, p. 184
'The Celtic Review' v, p. 91
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig) p. 59
'Songs of the Hebrides' iii, p. 72 (art version)
'An t-Òranaiche' p. 354
Fr Allan Manuscript, pp. 25, 33 & 110
Canon MacLean Manuscript, no. xxxvi

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - South Uist

Island - Benbecula

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good