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Mi 'm Shuidhe nam Ònar

Date 2001
Track ID 95755
Part 1

Track Information

Original Tape ID

MOD 2001 005

Summary

A man's love song. He sits alone on the hill, thinking of his sweetheart. He describes her beauty, her bewitching blue eyes and her rosy complexion. In his youth he was foolish, but now he will be wise. He sings like a mavis now that his sweetheart approaches.

Item Notes

Recorded at the Royal National Mòd. Composed by Somhairle Cameron, Rannoch.

See:
'An t-Òranaiche' (Gilleasbaig Mac na Ceàrdadh ed., 1879) p. 437

Recording Location

County - Ross and Cromarty

Parish - Stornoway

Island - Lewis

Village/Place - Stornoway

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

BBC

Source Type

Cd

Audio Quality

Good