An Cailin Aerach (The Airy/Light-Hearted Girl)

DESCRIPTION: Irish Gaelic: Singer comes home with the airy girl "tired and weakened." He apologizes to her; woman of the house comes down in a fury and banishes the girl. He sings the girl's praises, and warns the girls of the neighborhood not to keep his company
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (recording, Maire O'Sullivan)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage jealousy infidelity accusation warning lover
FOUND IN: Ireland
RECORDINGS:
Maire O'Sullivan, "An Cailin Aerach (The Airy [Light-Hearted] Girl)" [incomplete] (on Lomax42, LomaxCD1742)
NOTES [39 words]: [Lomax's] plot descriptions are frustratingly vague; the "woman of the house" is described by Lomax as the man's sweetheart, but she sounds more like a wife. And what is he apologizing for, that left the girl "tired and weakened"? - PJS
File: RcACAtag

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