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'S e mo Leannan Calum Gaolach

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0163B.882

Original Tape ID

CW0163B

Summary

In this fragment from a waulking song, a woman says that beloved Calum is her sweetheart. He did not lie in her bed the previous night, and will not do so tonight if the walls will keep him out.


Item Notes

4 lines sung plus choruses. The lines are linked.

See:
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (M. F. Shaw ed. 1955) p. 213 (Song 80)
'One Hundred and Five Songs of Occupation from the Western Isles of Scotland' (F. Tolmie ed.) Song 68

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Small Isles

Island - Canna

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good