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Chan Eil a' Chùis a' Còrdadh Rium

Date 03 April 1951
Track ID 34025
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0145.717

Original Tape ID

CW0145

Summary

This humorous song tells of a man who took a stirk to the cattle sale in Gerinish, South Uist, in order to get a drover to take it. The day did not go well, and he met a long list of people claiming money from him, for many different things. They included the weaveress, the cobbler, the grain merchant, the tea merchant and the factor.

Item Notes

8 couplets sung plus 3-line choruses.

See:
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (Margaret F. Shaw ed., 1955) p. 124

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Barra

Island - Barra

Village/Place - Castlebay

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good