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Tha an Oidhche Nochd Fuar

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Date 01 April 1951
Track ID 33934
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0138C.679

Original Tape ID

CW0138C

Summary

The composer of this waulking song begins by stating that the night is cold and frosty. The fair-haired man she loves is at sea. She will cross the sea with him and marry before the minister. She hopes that she and her husband will have a son.

Item Notes

9 lines sung. The first line of the song is missing.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 1 (J. L. Campbell & F. Collinson eds., 1969) p. 154
Fr. Allan MacDonald composed the Christmas hymn 'S e Moire Bha Truagh' to the tune of this waulking song.

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - South Uist

Island - Eriskay

Village/Place - Rhuban

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good