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Nighean Dubh, Nighean Donn

Date 14 December 1949
Track ID 21405
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0020.88

Original Tape ID

CW0020

Summary

This is a waulking song in the form of a man's love song, in which he praises a girl and asks her to come with him. She will get a candle and lantern, and the best of wine.

Item Notes

15 lines plus choruses sung.

See:
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig ed., 1949) p. 90

Recording Location

County - Renfrewshire

Parish - Paisley

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good