Tàladh na Mnatha Sìdhe
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
August 1970
Track ID
28117
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1970.215.A1
Original Tape ID
Summary
This song is a fairy cradle song in which the speaker says she would wander in the night with her beloved child. Sections of the song contain vocables which belong to the piping tradition.
Item Notes
Cf.
'One Hundred and Five songs of Occupation from the Western Isles' (F. Tolmie) Song 20
'Tocher' 27 (The School of Scottish Studies) p. 150, which has several lines in common with this song.
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good