Bothan Àirigh Am Bràigh Raithneach
(A Sheiling On The Braes Of Rannoch)


Printed in John Gillies publication: A collection of ancient and modern Gaelic poems and songs (Sean dain, agus orain Ghaidhealach), 1786, pp.242-244.
The song is untitled but Gillies gives a heading:
"Oran le Oig-mhnaoi d' a Leannan"
(A Young Woman's Song to Her Lover)

It is recorded also in the MacLagan MS (Glasgow University) of the same late 18th century period.
James MacLagan or McLagan (Seumas MacLathagain; 1728–1805) was a Church of Scotland minister and collector of Scottish Gaelic poetry and song. His manuscript collection, known as the McLagan Collection, comprises some 250 manuscripts of primarily Gaelic song and poetry collected in the second half of the eighteenth century.
McLagan likely provided some material for John Gillies' Clan Feuds and Songs (1780), and he was closely involved with the same publisher's book of 1786, known generally as the Gillies Collection.



"Oran le Oig-mhnaoi d' a Leannan"
(A Young Woman's Song to Her Lover)


Gur e m' anam is m' eudail
Chaidh 'a de do Ghleann-Garradh;

Fear na gruaig' mar an t or
'S na poig air bhias meala.

Ho ao ho u o
Ho ao ho u o
I ri ri ho ao o
I ri ri 's i o dhiali o.
Fear na gruaig, &c.

'S tu 's fhearr do 'n tig deise
Do na sheasamh air thalamh,
Ho ao o, &c.

'S tu 's fhearr do 'n tig culaddh
Do na chunna mi dh' fhearuibh.

Coitain Lunduinneach du-ghorm,
'S biaidh na cruintain ga cheannach.

'S tu 's fearr do 'n tig osan
'S brog shocrach nam barr-iall.

'Nuair a rigeadh tu 'n fheill
'S e mo ghear-s' a thig dhathigh.

Mo chriosan, mo chire
'S mo stiomag chaol cheangail.

Mo lamhainne boidheach
'S deis oir air am barruibh.
Mo sporan donn iallach
Mar re scian nan eas aineamh.

Thig mo chrios a Dun eudain
'S mo bhreid a Dun-chaillunn.

Cuim am biodhmaid gun eadail
Agus ni aig na Gallaibh?

Gheibh sinn Crobh as a Mhaorann
Agus Caoirich a Gallamh.

'S an a bhios sinn ga 'n arach
Air airidh 'm Braidh-raineach.

Ann am bothan an t sugraidh
'S gur e bu dhuna' dha barrach.

Bhiodh a chuag 's an smudan
Ag gabhail ciuil duinn air chrannaibh.

Bhiodh an damh donn sa bhuireadh
Gar dusgadh sa mhaduin


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