Identifier Number |
NS049014 |
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 |
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 October 1937 |
Collector |
John Lorne Campbell |
Collection Title |
Tobar an Dualchais |
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Online Access |
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/41494?l=en |
Notes 1 |
In this song a man is lamenting what happened at the Battle of Inverlochy. A band of Irishmen came over to Scotland to fight with the MacDonalds. They killed his father, his wife and his children. They also killed his cattle and sheep and they ruined his oats and barley. |
Notes 2 |
Copy of Ediphone wax cylinder recording. |
Notes 3 |
See: Songs Remembered in Exile, ed. John Lorne Campbell (1990), p. 205-6. |
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