The Muir o Culloden
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1970.079.A1
Original Tape ID
Summary
Fragments of a Jacobite ballad in which the singer recounts how the Jacobite commanders disagreed about a course of action before the Battle of Culloden; the song ends with a lament for the dead and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Item Notes
2 verses of 4 lines. This song derives from the poem 'Culloden' by George Murray (1819-1868), published in his collection 'Islaford' in 1845. Lizzie Higgins learned the slow air she used as the melody for this song from her father's piping.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 1, p. 333, no. 127
'Bothy Songs & Ballads' (J. Ord, 1930) p. 293
'Islaford, and other poems' (G. Murray, 1845) pp. 125-128
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein & A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. CXXIV, CXXV
Item Subject/Person
Stuart, Charles Edward [Bonnie Prince Charlie]
Recording Location
County - Midlothian
Parish - Edinburgh
Village/Place - Edinburgh
Item Location
County - Inverness-shire
Parish - Daviot and Dunlichity
Village/Place - Culloden Moor (Drummossie Moor)
Language
English
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good