Trom Òro Challain 'S Mise Nach Eil Fallain
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
30 July 1959
Track ID
106585
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1959.67.A3
Original Tape ID
Summary
This waulking song has four sections. The chorus lines differ in each section. The first begins: "I am unhappy / My lover has departed / On a full-masted ship / She came to land in Harris."
The second part tells how the composer is returning to Kintail.
The third part is addressed to a woman described as being beneath contempt, and in the final part the composer says: "May I not wear the kerchief [of a married woman] / If I do not love the hunter of the deer."
Item Notes
See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 3 (J. L. Campbell & F. Collinson) p. 62
Recording Location
County - Inverness-shire
Parish - Barra
Island - Barra
Village/Place - Skallary
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good