Search Results

In this waulking song, a sailor expresses the hope that his beloved will not take the tailor, the shoemaker, the shepherd or the herdsman.

This love song from Skye was composed by a woman known as Beathag Mhòr who fell in love with a member of the gentry generally known by his Gaelic title 'Màrtainn a' Bhealaich'. Beathag had two sons...

This little song is a lament by a woman for the death of a man she describes as a hunter.

In this song the poet tells how he met a beautiful girl who, like him, was working at the manse. He fell deeply in love with her. Unfortunately, she deceived him and abandoned him for a man with mo...

This song is a lament for a sailor called Calum whose sailing ship was sunk. The composer describes her loneliness when she sees other men of his age at church. She tells how the subject had come t...

In this love song a girl tells how she lay with her lover, though she was not betrothed to him and did not have her father's approval. The man seems to have been one of the nobility. He has deserte...

This is a dance tune from Skye.

This is a dance tune in strathspey time. Mrs Arnott tells how the song was composed by a man known as Eòghann Fìdhlear, for Pàdraig Mòr, her great-grandfather on her mother's side of the family. Pà...

This waulking song describes an incident in an encounter between the MacDonalds and the Martins of Trotternish.

This is a woman's love song from Skye.