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A humorous mouth music song teasing a boy named Allan.

This waulking song has two sections. In the first, the composer speaks of going to visit her foster-mother. She will not be given menial tasks by her, but will be treated with respect. In the secon...

The diddling of an old 2/4 pipe march, the name of which is not known.

A humorous ditty about a man's decision on whom he was going to wed, but when he returned from his voyage there was no sign of her.

At the beginning of this waulking song the composer asks someone about her missing cattle. In the section which follows a woman describes the nobleman she loves. He is a hunter. He passed yesterday...

A humorous ditty about her beloved who is a fisherman; many humorous verses about his work on the boat.

She will not go to Kilmuir and will not meet with Murdo. She praises him for his blue eyes and says she would go with him through the three glens.

A waulking song with a description of the grey, wet weather, the hunter's gun, and the hunter being buried under the ground where she will see him no more.

A fragment of a waulking song. He is not scared of being hung, imprisoned or having his ear cut off.

In this waulking song, a woman wakes early in the morning and climbs up to the side of the glen to look for the boat which had sailed over a week ago. Her husband was aboard, as was her father and ...