Mudcat Café message #2643214

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Thread #121195 Message #2643214
Posted By: Suegorgeous
28-May-09 - 07:38 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Fhir a Bhata / Fear a Bhata / The boatman
Subject: RE: Origins: FHIR A BHATA/ Fhir a Bhata/The boatman/

My Gaelic songbook Ceol Nam Feis says about this song: "Composed in the late 1700s by Jane Finlayson of Tong, Lewis, for a young Uig fisherman, Donald MacRae, whom she later married. Donald used to fish out of Loch Roag."