Chailin Òig as Stiùireamaiche
Track Information
Original Track ID
CDC.XL
Original Tape ID
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
Collection
Source Type
Disc
Audio Quality
Fair