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Mo Rùn Ailean

Date 09 November 1950
Track ID 26786
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0114B.536

Original Tape ID

CW0114B

Summary

This waulking song is divided into two sections. In the first, a woman tells how she climbed high in the pass and saw her lover's ship coming. He was at the helm. There is a change of chorus at this point. In the section which follows, the composer curses the slanderers who said she was pregnant. If so, the father would not be "that beast", but "the brown-haired scholar of English" who rides a well-shod horse.

Item Notes

25 lines sung.

See:
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (M. F. Shaw, 1955) song 97, p. 240

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - South Uist

Island - South Uist

Village/Place - Lochboisdale

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good