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Chailin Òig as Stiùireamaiche

Date July 1953
Track ID 44243
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CannaDMP.8

Original Tape ID

CannaTape.0022

Summary

The text of this waulking song falls into several sections. These include a description of a meeting with a brown-haired woman. The following section says, "I lay in a fever that day, and for a year and a quarter. The brown-haired woman came to see me when five quarters had passed." It is followed by a section about a shinty game. Then there is a section with opinions on the characters of women. The penultimate section contains the woman's descriptions of herself.

Item Notes

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' (Gilleasbaig Mac na Ceàrdadh) p. 21
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 2 (J. L. Campbell & F. Collinson eds., 1977) p. 44

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Barra

Island - Vatersay

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good