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Chailin Òig as Stiùireamaiche

Date March 1938
Track ID 27128
Part 1
Part 2

Track Information

Original Track ID

CDC.XL

Original Tape ID

album_01_D09A

Summary

The text in this song falls into several sections. After the introductory lines in which a dairymaid says she should have a herdsman, there is a description of a meeting with a brown-haired woman, who makes impossible requests.

The following section says: "I lay in a fever that day, and for a year and a quarter. The brown-haired woman came to see me when five quarters had passed."

The next section involves a shinty game, and the final one gives opinions on the characters of women.

Item Notes

34 lines sung. This song appears to be a ballad adapted as a waulking song, and its chorus line is possibly what Pistol is referring to in his words "Calen o custure me" in Shakespeare's 'Henry V'.

See:
'An t-Òranaiche' (Gilleasbaig Mac na Ceàrdadh) p. 21
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 2 (J. L. Campbell & F. Collinson eds., 1977) p. 44

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Barra

Island - Barra

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Disc

Audio Quality

Fair