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Latha siubhal beinne dhomh

Date
Track ID 39128
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CDC.XXIII

Original Tape ID

album_02_D04-B

Summary

This is a clapping song. In it, a man tells how he met a pretty girl gathering flowers and watercress, and asked her for a kiss. She told him to go away as he was nothing but a shaggy peasant, and went on to tell him how the people in her house were very refined.

Item Notes

20 lines sung. This version was published by the Linguaphone Institute in 'Gaelic Folksongs from the Isle of Barra'.

See:
'Scottish Tradition' 3 (The School of Scottish Studies) Notes p. 5

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Island - Barra

Parish - Barra

Village/Place - Castlebay

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Disc

Audio Quality

Fair