Lyr Req: Westering Home

Subject: Westering home
From: Sharone56
Date: 24 Aug 98 - 01:31 AM

looking for the title/lyric to song that starts w/ Westering home theres a song in the air and so forth and so on, many thanks to those that might be able to help

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Wolfgang Hell
Date: 24 Aug 98 - 05:25 AM

Sharone, enter "westering" in the upper right search window and you'll get what you want. regards Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Alice
Date: 25 Aug 98 - 10:10 AM

I love this song, but I have a question about a couple of words in the second verse as written in the database. Meaning of 'canty and couthy'...and correct pronunciation of 'couthy'?

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Murray on Saltspring
Date: 26 Aug 98 - 03:19 AM

Canty = cheerful; couthie = (well, it's a combination of ideas) - kind, pleasant, sympathetic, It's a diminutive of "couth", which is the opposite of "uncouth", and is pronounced in the same way, COOthie. Cheers. Murray

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Alice
Date: 26 Aug 98 - 10:18 AM

Murry, thanks. I had a hunch that couthy was related to uncouth. It's a good word.... we need more couth in the world today.

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Teru
Date: 26 Aug 98 - 07:46 PM

There were some discussions about this song in April last year. I asked a question in the forum concerning Ilay which appears in this song. The question is very tiny but it sitll remained unsolved. Here I should like to ask the same question. Does anyone give me the answer?

I have heard that "Westering Home" is a song of the Hebrides. As far as I know, in medieval Scotland, Islay, together with Outer and Inner Hebrides, had belonged to Kingdom of the Isles until 1265. However, nowadays, Islay, as well as Jura, Mull, Tiree and Coll, is included in Strathclyde, while Skye, Rhum and Eigg are in Highland. The Outer Hebrides are now called Weatern Isles.

Is Islay in the Hebrides? What islands are included in the Inner Hebrides?

I suppose Skye, Rhum and Eigg must be, and Coll, Tiree and Mull may be. Jura and Ilay are a bit far from these islands.

Is there any definition of the Hebrides?

Thanks

Teru

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 26 Aug 98 - 09:25 PM

Teru....

My maps show Mull, Coll, Tiree, Rhum and Eigg as Inner Hebrides.

Outer - N/S Uist, Harris, Lewis.

Skye is a tough one (a 'tweener) - check with the first base umpire.

Jura, Islay, Colonsay - probably too far south to be included, but who knows?.

Caution - it's only my reading of the maps. No specific knowledge of the politics, but I'm interested in the outcome.

Keep it coming.....Tiger

Subject: RE: Westering home
From:
Date: 26 Aug 98 - 09:58 PM

This is a great song. The Calgary Irish Cultural Society choir did it in Irish Gaelic last Christmas. It was very well received.

Frank Phillips

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Mo
Date: 27 Aug 98 - 01:11 PM

Islay certainly feels like it belongs to the Hebrides... but then again, like Ralph, I've no real local knowledge Umm, is it too pedantic of me to ask whether you all know it's pronounced eye-lah? I'm sure you do, but I've done it now! Sorry if I've been presumptious!

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Susan of DT
Date: 28 Aug 98 - 07:25 AM

According to "Scottish Island Hopping" by J. Tindall, the Outer Hebrides include:Lewis, Harris, Scarp, Scalpay, Berneray, North Uist, The Monach Isles, Grimsay, Benbecula, South Uist, Eriskay, Barra, Vatersay, Sandray, Pabbay, Mingulay, Berneray,and St. Kilda. The Inner Hebrides include: Summer Isles, Skye, Raasay, Rhum, Canna, Eigg, Muck, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Staffa, Iona, Lismore, Kerrera, Seil, Easdale, Luling, Garvellachs, Colonsay, Jura, Islay, Gigha

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Susan of DT
Date: 28 Aug 98 - 07:45 AM

I searched the database for Hebrides and several of the islands, with mixed results. While we have a category @Hebrides, only one song was so labelled. This is the problem with keywords: the later something got thought of as a keyword, the less likely it is that the relevent songs will get tagged. A search for Hebrides yielded 7 hits, Skye got 18; Lewis and Harris each had three that referred to the island, among others referring to a person's name; Uist and Eigg each had 2; Eriskay, Mingulay, and Barra each had one. Note that some songs list several islands.

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Teru
Date: 29 Aug 98 - 11:51 PM

Thanks all.

What had been weighing on my mind was gone!

Teru

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Barry Finn
Date: 30 Aug 98 - 12:06 AM

I got to thinking of the song (also a beauty of a tune) "The Dark Island" & what island would the 'Dark Island' be, if it be? And there's a line in it "where the steamer leaves Oban & passes Tiree", where would Oban be? Thanks, Barry

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Mo
Date: 30 Aug 98 - 01:41 PM

Oban would be on the west coast of Scotland,as far west as you can get without falling in the water. Look for the Isle of Skye on your map, across to the mainland, follow the coast down a bit and there it is. In my humble opinion the only place to start island hopping from - and some great pubs too!! The steamer these days, alas, would be the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry - otherwise ironically known as the Lord of the Isles.

Subject: RE: Westering home
From: Alice
Date: 30 Aug 98 - 03:49 PM

I found this link on Toby Rider's page of Scottish and music links:

Virtual Hebrides
http://www.hebrides.com/

alice