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Chunnaic Mise Mo Leannan

Date 11 April 1951
Track ID 34749
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0158.780

Original Tape ID

CW0158

Summary

In the first three couplets of this waulking song, a woman tells how she saw her lover pass by on a lightly stepping grey horse, on the previous day. He did not acknowledge her.
The lines which follow have Jacobite references and express the hope that King James will be crowned.


Item Notes

7 couplets sung plus 3-line choruses.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 3 (J. L. Campbell & F. Collinson eds., 1981) p. 156
'An t-Òranaiche' (G. Mac na Ceàrdadh ed., 1879) p. 504
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig ed., 1949) p. 34
'Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia' (H. Creighton & C. MacLeod eds., 1964) p. 190
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (M. F. Shaw ed., 1955) Song 90
'Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness' vol. 26 p. 240

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - South Uist

Island - South Uist

Village/Place - Lochboisdale

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good