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Tha Caolas Eadar Mi 's Iain

Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date 05 April 1951
Track ID 34033
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0146A.720

Original Tape ID

CW0146A

Summary

In this waulking song the composer complains that there is a deep ocean between her and Iain. She wishes it would ebb before daybreak, so that she could go to see her secret lover.

Item Notes

Seven lines sung plus choruses. Each line is sung twice. According to the singer's father, Roderick MacKinnon, the woman who composed this song loved Iain, who is mentioned in the title, but he did not love her.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 2 (J. L. Campbell & F. Collinson eds., 1977) p. 62

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Barra

Island - Barra

Village/Place - Castlebay

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good