Identifier Number NS049013
Title O gur mise a th' air mo leònadh
Alternative Title Blàr Inbhir Lòchaidh
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First Line Chorus N hì ri ri ri hó hò
First Line Verse O gur mise th' air mo leònadh
Classifications Lament
Subjects War , Death , Family , Loss
Structure One line verse / two line chorus
Place Of Origin Scotland
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Composer Last Name Campbell
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Composer Dates 17th century
Composer Gender Female
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Original Format Sound Recording
Singer Angus MacDonald
Singer Location Upper South River
Date Recorded 20 November 1937
Collector John Lorne Campbell
Collection Title Tobar an Dualchais
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Online Access https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/40721?l=en
Notes 1 This song laments loved ones who have been killed at the Battle of Inverlochy. The song says that it was the "grim Irish" who gave strength to Clan Donald. The person in the song says their livestock were killed and their crops ruined.
Notes 2 This recording is a copy of the original which was recorded on wax cylinder using a clockwork Ediphone recorder. 23 couplets with a refrain. Composed by a Campbell woman after the Covenanter defeat at the hands of Royalist Irish and Highlanders led by Alasdair MacColla.
Notes 3 See: Songs Remembered in Exile, ed. John Lorne Campbell (1990), p. 205-6.
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