Identifier Number NS016027
Title Biodh An Deoch So’n Làimh Mo Rùin
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus Biodh an deoch so'n làimh mo rùin
First Line Verse Òladh no an òladh càch i
Classifications Work , Milling , Praise
Subjects Seafaring, Foster Mother , Son , Brother , Charles Edward Stuart , Duntuilm , Colla , Ruma , Dunvegan
Structure Two line verse / Three line chorus
Place Of Origin Scotland
Composer First Name
Composer Last Name
Composer Patronymic Nighean Mhic 'ic Ailein (Clanranald)?
Composer Dates
Composer Gender
Community Uist , Coll , Morar
County
Era Of Poetry
Original Format Publication
Singer Mrs Neil McInnis (née Ann MacDonald) (1860-1947)
Singer Location MacKay's Corner, Glace Bay (Uist and Barra tradition)
Date Recorded 20-10-1937
Collector John Lorne Campbell
Collection Title
Collection Location Canna House / School of Scottish Studies
Collection Number
Publication Title Songs Remembered in Exile
Editor John Lorne Campbell
Publisher Aberdeen University Press
Publication Date 1990
Page Number 157-161
Online Access
Notes 1 First printed in Sinclair's An t-Òranaiche (1873); also printed in Sydney Post Record, with an additional second verse, included in this version. See also: Mac Talla, vol. II, 5 August 1893 (20 couplets); The Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness , Vol. XXVI, p. 236.
Notes 2 There are extensive notes on the stories associated with this song in Songs Remembered in Exile.
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