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Chailin Òig as Stiùireamaiche

Date March 1938
Track ID 39133
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CDC.XXIV

Original Tape ID

album_02_D05-A

Summary

The introductory lines of this song describe a meeting between a man and a brown-haired woman. The following section tells how the man lay in a fever that day, and for a year and a quarter. The brown-haired woman came to see him.

Item Notes

Ten 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' (G. Mac na Ceàrdadh) p. 21
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 2 (J. L. Campbell and F. Collinson) p. 44

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Barra

Island - Barra

Village/Place - Castlebay

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Disc

Audio Quality

Fair