Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
GUEST,HughM Tune Req: Lament from Lewis (17) RE: Tune Req: Lament from Lewis 29 Mar 06


Off the top of my head I can't immediately think of a lament from Lewis, but one tune which must be fairly easy to track down would be Macrimmon's Lament, which comes from Skye, not far from Lewis and probably visible from there on a clear day. Alternatively you could try Fear a' Bha\ta (The Boatman) or An Ataireachd Ard (literally The High Surge, but usually known in English as The Eternal Surge of the Sea.) These are not laments but would not sound out of place and should be some of the easiest airs from Lewis to find in print or recorded. I read somewhere that Fear a' Bha\ta was written by a girl from Stornoway, where the Iolaire was lost.
    (I use the back slash to represent a "grave" accent over the previous letter; my computer literacy doesn't extend to writing it properly!)


Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.