Our songs ... Ar n-òrain
We have a large repertoire of waulking songs and other traditional songs. Some of them are listed below. We have started adding words and translations, and some videos or sound files. Contact us for information on any of our songs. If you have a query about a song not on the list, ask anyway - we know a lot of songs!
ORAIN LUAIDH (Waulking songs)
A ghaoil, saoil am faigh mi thu? Click here for a video (a short one!).
Ailein dubh á Lòchaidh
Ailein duinn shiubhlainn leat
Ailein duinn beul a' mhànrain
Air a leabaidh 's mi m' ònar Click here for a (very short!) video.
Air far al al o Click here to see a video.
Alasdair Mhic Cholla ghasda
An cuala sibh mu 'n mhaighdinn cheutach? Click here to see a video.
An fhideag airgid Click here to see a video.
B' e siud an cùl bachalach
Bheir mi sgrìob do Thobar Mhoire
Buain a' choirce Click here for a video. (One of our early efforts!)
Cha teid mi le mac a' mhaoir
Chan eil mi gun mhulad orm (Oran basaidh)
Chluinn mi na h-eòin
Clò Mhic 'ille Mhìcheil
Chunna mi còmhlan seach a' bhuaile
Chunnaic mis' an t-òg uasal Click here for a video.
Có nì mire rium? (Oran basaidh)
Dheanainn sùgradh ris an nigh’nn duibh
Dh'éirich mi moch madainn Chéitein
Dh'éirich mi moch madainn earraich Click here for video.
Di-Sathuirne ghabh mi mulad
Ged tha 'n oidhche nochd fuar
Gur e mis' tha fo ghruaim
Hé mandu Click here for a video.
Hé mo leannan
Hó ro chall eile Click here to see a video.
Ho ró gun togainn air hùgan fhathast
Hù ra bhó ho Click here for a video of an exuberant workshop session in Lublin, Poland, in 2011.
I hiuraibh ó chan eil mi slàn
Là Millegàraidh
Latha dhomh 's mi 'm Beinn a' Cheathaich
Latha dhomh 's mi siubhal mòintich
Latha leathag (Oran basaidh)
Latha siubhal beinne dhomh (Oran basaidh)
Mhic iarla nam bratach bàna
Mhurchaidh bhig, a chinn a'chonais
Mi cuimir, mi cruinn Click here for a video.
Mìle marbhaisg air an t-siùcar Click here to listen. This is a new song, commissioned in 2014 from Sgioba Luaidh for Absent Voices, an artistic project, celebrating Greenock's long-gone sugar industry. We made a video in the atmospheric setting of Auchindrain Township. You can watch it here.
Mo rùn Ailean
Na gamhna geala
Oganach gun tòir 'na dheaghaidh
O hao, o hao 's mi fo mhì-ghean Click here for a video.
O 's fhada bhuainn Anna
Oran mór Sgoirebreac
Rinn mi moch-éirigh gu éirigh Click here for video.
'S daor a cheannaich mi 'phòg
'S e m' eudail mhór Mac 'ic Ailein
Sheòl am bàta fairis a-null
Shuigh mi air cnoc àrd an t-siùil
'S trom an dìreadh
'S trom mo cheum, chan eil mi sunndach
Tha fadachd orm fhìn, a Rìgh
Thàinig mo bhodachan dhachaidh This can be sung as a waulking song (video here), or at a faster pace as a clapping song (video here).
Trod nan cailleach (Song series) Click for more information.
ORAIN OBRACH (Work songs)
A bhólagan, a bhó chiùin
Abu chuibhl'
Brà brà bleith
Có leis an crodh druimfhionn ud thall?
Fuirich an diugh gus am màireach
Tàladh Mhic Leòid
Tha an crodh air na lòin
Thug mi gaol dhuit, thug mi gràdh dhuit
ORAIN EIBHINN & PUIRT A BEUL
An gàradh aig MacThómais
B' e siud a' bhriogais uallach
Bha croit mhath mhór aig Dòmhnall bàn
Do chrochadh a thoill thu, thoill thu
Ili ili ars' a' chailleach Click here for a video. We recorded this at Auchindrain in 2008, as Innes and Frances Rosemary soaked the tweed preparatory to waulking - on a very chilly day! This was the first full waulking we ever did. The tweed was given to us by Redshank Kiltmakers in Inveraray.
'S i 'bheart a rinn mo shàrachadh Click here for a video of a performance at GalGael in Govan in 2008.
