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Thread #10414 Message #931959
Posted By: Jim McLean
12-Apr-03 - 04:37 PM
Thread Name: Mingulay Boat Song again
Subject: RE: Mingulay Boat Song again
George, as I mentioned previously, and you supplied the lyrics (poem) to the tune 'Creag Ghuanach' AKA 'The Hawk that swoops on high' AKA 'The mingulay Boat Song', Hugh MacDiarmid wrote a wonderfully evocative poem in Lallans called 'The Eemis Stane' which translates into Gaelic as The Creag Ghuanach. Just an aside. Jim Mclean