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Sneachda ga chur air na beannan

Date 03 April 1951
Track ID 5135
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1951.26.B2

Original Tape ID

SA1951.026

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 earl's son 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

Text transcribed in the School of Scottish Studies. 19 lines sung.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 2 (Campbell/Collinson) p. 72
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig) p. 42

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good