Songs
Found in 440 Collections and/or Records:
Song beginning 'Chai an conn Gun deach an conn an cuil', 16 June 1876
Song collected from Cairistina nin Duil [Cairistiona nighean Dùghaill or Christina MacInnes], Creagorry [Creag Ghoraidh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] beginning 'Chai an conn Gun deach an conn an cuil'. The song is composed of forty-five lines and it appears as if lines three and four have been missed out. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. Cairistiona is noted as 'Bean bhoc[hd] a bhios sniomh dhan mhnaoi agam'.
Song beginning 'Chi mi Caibeal Dhiar[maid]', 27 March 1872
Song beginning 'Chi mi Caibeal Dhiar[maid], Na chreag iasg' [Donnchadh Mac Cuilcein/Duncan Mac Cuilcein] collected from Barbara MacPhi [Barbara MacPhie] aged 73, Dreumsdale [Dreumasdal/Drimsdale, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The song is composed of twenty lines and is interrupted with a note on where 'Teisteamul nan gauna' [Teistamul nan Gamhna] is. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Song beginning 'Chi mi ghrian a fala gu siulach', 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Song collected on Miùghlaigh/Mingulay beginning 'Chi mi ghrian a fala gu siulach, Si dol tiom Ru'n dunu'. The song is composed of thirty-seven lines, with the final two lines being scored out as if deleted. There are two places marked with the numbers '1' and '2' as if the second pair are to be inserted where the first pair are written. The text has been scored through in ink and written transversely across it is written 'Trans[cribed] June 16 1869 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael].'
Song beginning 'Chuala mi do gheadh sa bhin'ach', 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Song beginning 'Chuir Fionn a mheur fo dheud fios', 15 April 1865
Four stanzas from the Fenian ballad 'Garabh agus na Mnathan', beginning 'Chuir Fionn a mheur fo dheud fios, Gabhaidh leis gad fios mar fhuair' collected from Uilleam Sinclair [William Sinclair], Bhahirva, Barraidh [Bàgh Thiarabhagh/Bayherivagh, Barraigh/Isle of Barra].
Song beginning 'Chuir si mo chri air a phlosgail' and accompanying story, 1883
Song probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, beginning 'Chuir si mo chri air a phlosgail' and accompanying story, which describes how the daughter of Glencoe ran away with her father's piper Henderson to America. It also notes that 'She never did did (sic) good - always going round the shore to look out for her lover coming'.
Song beginning 'Chuirinn na Fir air fairle dhut', c1892
Song beginning 'Chuirinn na Fir air fairle dhut, S aisir/Air aisig Inis Fhail.' The song is composed of ten lines arranged in five couplets. The accompanying notes states 'A daughter of Maclean of Coll composed a beautiful song on this air to a young man of Benbecula [Beinn na Faoghla].' The text has been scored through in pencil and bears some pencil annotations.
Song beginning 'Cro an eich cheannan', 15 August 1883
Song beginning 'Cro an eich cheannan' collected from Donald MacGregor, Baile Garbh/Bailegarve, Lios Mòr/Lismore.
Song beginning 'Dheannin sùgradh ris an nighean duibh', August 1909
Song beginning 'Dheannin sùgradh ris an nighean duibh'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Song beginning 'Fear air muin eich bhain', 7 August 1886
Song collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Lochaline [Loch Àlainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], beginning 'Fear air muin eich bhain, dol gu gach taigh [saighis]'. The song is composed of thirty-five lines.