"Gudewife, admit the wanderer" is something I've never heard sung. The idea of the text (by Captain Charles Gray, R.M., F.S.A. Scot.) is a good one: an aged follower of Prince Charlie who's gone with him after his defeat is knocking at a door and asking for a nook to lie down and die in after his task has been done - and I could imagine it being an effective song if it had a decent tune. But the tune by Finlay Dun just plods.
Someone once told me there was a Gaelic version of it sung to "The Bob of Fettercairn" (strange choice for such a dark subject but better than Dun's thing). Anyone know it? =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
