Trom Ò Ro Challain
Contributors
Morrison, Mary (2415)
Unknown Person
Fieldworkers
Date
03 August 1956
Track ID
14431
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1956.78.1
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 kerch (of a married woman) / If I do not love the hunter of the deer."
Item Notes
38 lines sung. Some problems in original recording cause speed variation and dips in pitch.
See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 3 (J.L Campbell and F. Collinson) p. 62
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Poor