Chailin Òig as Stiùireamaiche
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
March 1938
Track ID
39133
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
CDC.XXIV
Original Tape ID
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
Collection
Source Type
Disc
Audio Quality
Fair