Identifier Number NS016061
Title Ó Hù Hao ’S Mi Fo Mhìghean
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus Hù o, o hù, ’s mi fo mhìghean,
First Line Verse Gura muladach mi am bliadhna.
Classifications Local events and characters
Subjects Harvesting , Hazel , Courtship , Lowlands , Sailing
Structure Two line verse / Three line chorus
Place Of Origin Scotland
Composer First Name
Composer Last Name
Composer Patronymic
Composer Dates
Composer Gender
Community Barra
County
Era Of Poetry Pre 1825
Original Format Publication
Singer Mrs. David Patterson (née MacNeil)
Singer Location Benacadie (Barra tradition)
Date Recorded 1949
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 133-136
Online Access
Notes 1 Mrs. Patterson: 'Catrìona nighean Ailein Chaluim Pìobaire' (1872-1964). Listen to tracks by her under person ID 5441 on Tobar an Dualchis. There is a bio on the website for the MacEdward Leach Collection: https://www.mun.ca/folklore/leach/singers/dpatterson.htm
Notes 2 This version of the song is referenced in the notes of NS016018.
Notes 3 This version was taken over to the new world by the great-grandm of a Mr. Joseph MacKinnon who lived in Sydney in 1949.
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