The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33349   Message #459558
Posted By: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca
10-May-01 - 11:24 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Cape Breton or Atlantic Lullaby, HERE
Subject: RE: ADD: Cape Breton or Atlantic Lullaby, HERE
Sorry, I've been busy. I haven't come up with a fiddler who knows that tune to play it for me.

If I can confirm that it is the same tune as the one Kenneth Leslie used, I will advise. Looking at the sheet music in the CB Songbook of the Cape Breton Lullaby doesn't look anything like the sheet music I have for the Gaelic song, "Caidil Gu La". I don't know if the Gaelic song music is the same as the fiddle tune either. YET!

Sorry for the delay,

IF you want, I can certainly type up the Gaelic Song. Will do so in a couple of days.

YEs, the Gaelic translation of Cape Breton Lullaby is only about 4 or 5 years old. Caidil Gu Latha is at least 80 years old. I have it in a book which is a reprint of one from the 1920s.