Annotation:Nighean donn nan gobhar

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NIGHEAN DONN NAN GOBHAR. AKA and see "Maid that Tends the Goats (The), "Up among yon Clifty Rocks." Scottish, Air (whole time). Scotland, Argyll. The tune appears in the 1784 Gaelic song collection of Reverend Patrick MacDonald, a native of the Reay country, minister of the Parish of Kilmore, near Oban, sometimes called "The Gesto Collection."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: MacDonald (Collection of Highland Vocal Airs), 1784.

Recorded sources: Green Linnet SIF 1077, Capercaille - "Crosswinds" (1987). Trade Root Music, Mary Jane Lamond- "Stòras" (2005).



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