Identifier Number NS022006
Title Oran America
Alternative Title Song to America
Air
First Line Chorus
First Line Verse Dean cadalan samhach a chuilean mo ruin
Classifications Lullaby , Nature , Praise
Subjects Lullaby , Kintail , America
Structure Four line verse
Place Of Origin United States
Composer First Name
Composer Last Name MacRae
Composer Patronymic
Composer Dates
Composer Gender
Community
County Kintail , North Carolina
Era Of Poetry c.1760
Original Format Publication
Singer Hugh F. MacKenzie
Singer Location Rear Christmas Island , Sydney , Cape Breton Co.
Date Recorded
Collector Donald A. Fergusson
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number
Publication Title Fad air Falbh às Innse Gall/Beyond the Hebrides
Editor Donald A. Fergusson
Publisher Lawson Graphics Atlantic
Publication Date 1977
Page Number 20
Online Access
Notes 1 Mac-Talla I , 12 , 4
Notes 2 Mactalla nan Tur , p. 53
Notes 3 This song is often attributed to Iain Mac Mhurchaidh, the Bard of Kintail, but Hugh F. Mac Kenzie attributed it to a Mac Rae woman who emigrated from Kintail to North Carolina. Further discussion can be found in Newton, We're Indians Sure Enough (2001).
Notes 4
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