Identifier Number NS049047
Title A' chuachag nam beann
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First Line Chorus Ó hao ri hiù
First Line Verse 'S a' chuachag nam beann
Classifications Milling , Lament
Subjects Step-Mother , Mother , Children , Ill-Treatment
Structure Split chorus , Woven
Place Of Origin Scotland
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Singer Catherine Patterson
Singer Location Benacadie Glen
Date Recorded 24 May 1953
Collector John Lorne Campbell
Collection Title Tobar an Dualchais
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Online Access https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/49380?l=en
Notes 1 A fragment of a waulking song. In this short fragment a mother is lamenting that her children are not being well cared for by their step-mother. She hits them and treats them badly.
Notes 2 See: Songs Remembered in Exile, ed. John Lorne Campbell (1999), p. 108.
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