Mi air m' Aineoil Fad om Chàirdean
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
11 April 1951
Track ID
34727
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
CW0157.770
Original Tape ID
Summary
The composer of this waulking song complains that she is far from her friends and relations. She loved the drover who came to her during the night, and she now finds herself pregnant. She asks him to find a nurse for his child.
Item Notes
6 couplets sung plus 3-line choruses.
See:
'Òrain luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig ed., 1949) p. 71.
Recording Location
County - Inverness-shire
Parish - South Uist
Island - South Uist
Village/Place - Lochboisdale Hotel
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Wire
Audio Quality
Good