Songs
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Song beginning 'Air beinn san coille saig a bhaile' and accompanying note, 14 July 1870
Song beginning 'Air beinn san coille saig a bhaile, Mi fo chul do bhreac bhaile' probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist. The song is composed of twenty five lines and contains a number of amendments. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. The note adds that the singer heard ths song sixty years ago [c1810].
Song beginning 'Ceud sorie Mhaoldonaich', 14 July 1870 and 11 December 1873
Song beginning 'Ceud sorie Mhaoldonaich, Cha be 'n Donach b' fhear[r] gleat ort' probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist. The song is composed of eighteen lines and has been scored through in ink with the following written transversely over it 'Transcribed 11/12 83 Book III page 236 A[lexander] C[armichael].'