On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Jack Campin wrote:
> > Mairi's Wedding: is that Scottish?
>
> Yes. It's based (I'm told) on an older Gaelic song, "Mhairi nighean
> a Donnachaidh", but I don't know it. Mairi still alive, I think; the
> song was written for a specific wedding in the 1930s. There is a
> specific dance for it, but you could use it for any reel. It's a
> nice tune but the words (which I think were first written in English,
> don't blame the Gaels for it) are crap.
The song is known as Mairi Bhan. It was written in Gaelic, by John
Bannerman for a Gaelic Mod, 1935?, for a friend of his. The lady, Mary
McNiven, married 6 years later.
It was rewritten as an English song by Sir Hugh Robertson? or
Roberton a year LATER.
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