Translations in square brackets are the author’s. Asterisks indicate the second group of page numbers in the original MacDonald publication. The numbers given for items in MacDonald are those assigned by Chisholm himself.

(CSB: A Celtic Song Book.)

Airs from the Patrick MacDonald Collection

i McD 81 (unnamed)

ii McD 114 (unnamed)

iii McD 158 's cianail m’ aigne – ‘Tender Is My Affection’

iv McD 147 Tearlach Stiubhart – ‘Charlie Stewart’

v Mcd 122 Manus – ‘An Ancient Air’

vi McD 155 (unnamed)

vii McD 151 Faoileagan Scarba – ‘A Scarba Air’ (Chisholm misspells this as fadilengen, which is not any kind of word at all)

viii McD 23 Gur boidheach, boidheach an cnocan – ‘Lovely, Lovely Is Yonder Mount [Hillock]’. (Chisholm transposes the chorus phrases up a semitone, and further transposes them when he places them in the bass)

ix McD 91 's fad tha mi m’onaran – ‘Long A[m] I in Solitude’ (Chisholm misspells the Gaelic)

x McD 90 Tha loingeas fo breide – ‘A Nurse's Lamentation for the Loss of Her Foster Child’

xi McD 129 Nochd gur faoin mo chadal domh [‘Tonight My Sleep Is Lonely – Useless to Me’]

xii McD [from a piobaireachd?]

xiii McD 60 Mnathan Chrospuil is Bhaile Mhuirich [‘Women of Crossapol and BalaVurich’] xiv McD 149 Moch madainn cheitein – [‘Early One May Morning’]

xv McD 65 Imir sein, a Choinnich chridhe – ‘Row Thou, Dearest Kenneth’ (this is used for the ‘Ness Rowing Song’)

xvi McD 30* (unnamed)

xvii McD 5 Si ‘naill fo dhuisg mi [‘It Is This Desire from Which I Awoke’]

xviii McD 140 ‘Scian ‘sgur fad mi m’ thamh [‘It Is Long Since I Was at My Ease’]

xix McD 76 A do-ade-a do dh’fhalbh mi [‘A-do-ade-a-do I Left’]

xx McD 69 The ceo mor air Meall a’ mhuirich – ‘Low Lies the Mist on Mallavurich’ (this is the name of a mountain)

xxi McD 141 (unnamed)

xxii McD 162 Oran an aoig – ‘The Song of Death’

xxiii McD 161 's toigh leam fein mo laochan – ‘Dear to Me Is My Little Hero’

xxiv McD 78 Dh’ eirich mi moch [‘I Awoke Early’]

xxv McD 68 (unnamed)

xxvi ‘Prince Albert's March’ (Chisholm probably got this from David Glen’s Highland Bagpipe Tutor. It has not be identified in MacDonald)