tom hall wrote:
Hail andrew, et al,
I assume that you're referring to John Anderson, My Jo, by Burns.
The version he wrote for the Merry Muses of Caledonia does suggest that he
was a piper. To wit:
To see your hurdies fyke, John,
And hit the rising blow:
It's then I like your
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Hello all,
I am writing out my arrangement of this lovely WALTZ ( not the jig by the
same name). I learned it from my Grandfather long time back, and I seem to
remember he called it the Mist Covered Mountains of Home. At any rate, I
searched through the abc-index
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Thanks to all who responded with such great information to my queary
regarding the Bessie Bell/Mary Gray tune. What a rich offering! Thanks,
list.
Regards,
Andrew
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W. B. OLSON wrote:
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Would anyone be able to tell me what the title Weary Pund o' Tow means?
Its the title of a slow air from Gow's 3rd Repository. A pity that
apparently no one knows anymore the answer to Jack's question about the title
Cameron's Got His Wife
A song and it's tune. Not much of a drinking song, or any other
kind of song for that matter.
Our Girls, like our Geese, shou'd be watch'd from the Vermin;
That Geese are like Girls then, with Ease we determine;
Geese will gaggle, and wander astray on the Common;
And gaggle will wander astray
Jack Campin wrote:
There is a sociologically-oriented book by an English writer on the
contemporary British session scene where he defines a folk session
as a regular meeting of mostly amateur musicians who get together
to play tunes with 8-bar structures. I thought, youch, that last
bit
Jack Campin wrote:
Aloys Fleischmann wrote an article which mentioned the similarity between
'Bumper Squire Jones' and 'The Rummer' from one of John Playford's volumes.
'Rummer' and 'Anacreon' are also similar, but I don't believe that one tune
necessarily led directly to the other. All
Jack Campin wrote:
[John Turner] sent me one of his publications once, a jolly little
collection of miscellaneous Scottish tunes. It included a version of
the Stars and Stripes, published in Edinburgh in seventeen oatcake; I
think he was suggesting that it's a Scots song originally, and
David C Rogers wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, W. B. OLSON wrote:
If you mean the (rather good) march The Stars and Stripes Forever,
that would be pretty astonishing and I'd like to know more about it.
It sure doesn't sound like anything that could have an 18th century
antecedent
David C Rogers wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, W. B. OLSON wrote:
If you mean the (rather good) march The Stars and Stripes Forever,
that would be pretty astonishing and I'd like to know more about it.
It sure doesn't sound like anything that could have an 18th century
antecedent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would anyone be able to tell me what the title Weary Pund o' Tow means?
Its the title of a slow air from Gow's 3rd Repository. A pity that
apparently no one knows anymore the answer to Jack's question about the title
Cameron's Got His Wife Back Again-- I'll bet it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
Can some one recommend a good recording of Lochaber No More? I once
heard it on a long out of print album called _Songs and Music of the
Redcoats (1642-1902)_ sung (I believe) by Martin Wyndham Read.
Actually I'd really like to get a copy of the LP
George M R Duff wrote:
Hi David,
Serendipity or what?,I've just been asked this week to record an album of
Hogg's songs with Tony McManus,John Martin,Ian McInnes and Marc Duff as
backing musicians.I'll keep ypu informed of developments.
Regards to Shirley,
Slainte,
George
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David Kilpatrick wrote:
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Next year, 2002, is the Bicentenary of the publication of Walter Scott's
'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', printed in Kelso by Ballantyne.
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