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Cha Tèid Mi le Mac a' Mhaoir

Date March 1938
Track ID 27039
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CDC.XXXIII

Original Tape ID

album_01_D02A

Summary

This is a waulking song in which a woman says she will not go with the Steward's son, as he is just a foolish lad. She curses love and compares it to death. She wishes she could be with her lover on his ship.

Item Notes

9 lines sung. Most are linked.

See:
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri nighean Alasdair' p. 19
'The MacDonald Collection of Gaelic Poetry' p. 266
'Folksongs of Britain and Ireland' (ed. P. Kennedy) p. 46

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Barra

Island - Barra

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Disc

Audio Quality

Fair