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
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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