Cò Siud Thall air Ceann mo Ròpa?
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
Track ID
26811
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
CW0114C.541
Original Tape ID
Summary
The first couplet of this waulking song says "Who is there at the end of my rope? It is me, the fair-haired youth." The second says "Sad am I at this time of winter. It is Halloween and I have no eggs."
Item Notes
2 couplets sung plus 2-line choruses. The second couplet has been sung twice. The song refers to the Halloween custom when a girl would throw a rope over the drying-kiln, and call "Who is at the end of my rope?" The man she loved would answer.
See:
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (M. F. Shaw, 1955) song 95, p. 237
Recording Location
County - Inverness-shire
Island - South Uist
Parish - South Uist
Village/Place - Lochboisdale
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Wire
Audio Quality
Good