Identifier Number |
NS049013 |
Title |
O gur mise a th' air mo leònadh |
Alternative Title |
Blàr Inbhir Lòchaidh |
Air |
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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 |
Composer First Name |
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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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