The song names cows from Tiree, Barra, Islay and Arran and from green Kintyre, and calls them each by name, with a warning that certain cows would be lost. It is a herding call, and, like Campbell's account from Luskentyre, it ties the belief in sea cattle to this part of Harris. Carmichael gives it in Gaelic with a translation.
Obbe is the old name of the place now called Leverburgh. This is a separate local record to the one from Luskentyre, from the same stretch of coast, and shows how widely the tradition was held.
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