Clò Mhic 'Ille Mhìcheil
Track Information
Original Track ID
CW0170B.921
Original Tape ID
Summary
Using the image of waulking the tweed, the bard lists those who will rise again to support Bonnie Prince Charlie, and describes the thumping and pounding the Hanovarians will receive. John Lorne Campbell comments that the song was originally composed by Alexander MacDonald and the text lost for many years then rediscovered.
Item Notes
41 couplets plus 3-line choruses. The song was composed after the Battle of Culloden to inspire the Highlanders to rise again, possibly in 1751.
See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' Vol. v (J. L. Campbell and F. Collinson eds., 1981) p.132
'An Gaidheal', July 1951.
Item Subject/Person
Stewart, Charles Edward [Bonnie Prince Charlie]
Recording Location
County - Inverness-shire
Parish - Small Isles
Island - Canna
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Wire
Audio Quality
Good