Cha till Mac Cruimein
Cha till mi tuille
Primary Sources
P Cha till mi tuille P: 41
C1 Cha till mi tuil C1.56: 117
R Cha Till mi Tuille / I return no more R.34: 24v
KB Cha Till Mac Cruimein / MacCrummen will never return KB.7: 17
Notes on Gaelic Titles
Cha till Mac Cruimein Cha Till Mac Cruimein / MacCrummen will never return KB. MacCrimmon will never return. Traditional songs with this opening have been shown to be nineteenth-century reworkings of Cha till mi tuille; see V.S. Blankenhorn, ‘Traditional and bogus elements in MacCrimmon’s Lament’, Scottish Studies 22 (1978), pp. 45-67.
Cha till mi tuille Cha till mi tuille / Never more shall I return P; Cha till mi tuil C1; Cha Till mi Tuille / I return no more R. I shall never return.