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Sneachda ga Chur air na Beannan

Date 09 March 1950
Track ID 48621
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0075B.308

Original Tape ID

CW0075B

Summary

This waulking song begins: "There is snow on the mountains / The wind has frozen it to the trees." The composer expresses the hope that the son of the earl will send her a message. She tells how her father wants to marry her to a dun-coloured old man who is blind and deaf. The final lines are addressed to Cameron of Locheil from Lochaber, in whose arms the woman longs to be.

Item Notes

19 lines sung.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 2 (J. L. Campbell & F. Collinson eds., 1977) p. 72
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig ed., 1949) p. 42

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Barra

Island - Barra

Village/Place - Castlebay

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good