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Derivative Thread: Scottish Songs

Piobaire

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Give credit where it's due, Conne's Irish song thread is good. Thought I'd start one for Scots. To set this up correctly, a quote: (sorry, can't remember the author)

The Scots are the race
God made mad
For all their battles are happy
And all their songs are sad

To wit:

A Scottish Soldier, a.ka., The Green Hills of Tyrol

There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
There was none bolder, with good broad shoulder
He's fought in many a fray, and fought and won.
He'd seen the glory and told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
But now he's sighing, his heart is crying
To leave these green hills of Tyrol.

Chorus:
Because these green hills are not highland hills
Or the island hills, they're not my land's hills
And fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home.


And now this soldier, this Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
Sees leaves are falling and death is calling
And he will fade away, in that far land.
He called his piper, his trusty piper
And bade him sound a lay... a pibroch sad to play
Upon a hillside, a Scottish hillside
Not on these green hills of Tyrol.


Chorus


And so this soldier, this Scottish soldier
Will wander far no more and soldier far no more
And on a hillside, a Scottish hillside
You'll see a piper play his soldier home.
He'd seen the glory, he'd told his story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
The bugles cease now, he is at peace now
Far from those green hills of Tyrol.


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Part of my family history, The Massacre at Glencoe:

Chorus:
Oh cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe
And covers the grave o' Donald
And cruel was the foe that raped Glencoe
And murdered the house o' MacDonald

They came in the night when the men were asleep
That band of Argyles, through snow soft and deep.
Like murdering foxes, among helpless sheep
They slaughtered the house o' MacDonald

Chorus

They came through the blizzard, we offered them heat
A roof ower their heads, dry shoes for their feet.
We wined them and dined them, they ate of our meat
And slept m the house O' MacDonald

Chorus

They came from Fort William with murder mind
The Campbell's had orders, King William had signed
Put all to the sword, these words underlined
And leave none alive called MacDonald

Chorus

Some died in their beds at the hands of the foe
Some fled in the night, and were lost in the snow.
Some lived to accuse hlm, that struck the first blow
But gone was the house of MacDonald

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My uncle's a piper and he says, at least on the pipes, most people make little distinction between Irish and Scottish songs. A lot of proud Irish Americans request Green Hills of Tyrol.
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Originally Posted by shoreman1782
My uncle's a piper and he says, at least on the pipes, most people make little distinction between Irish and Scottish songs. A lot of proud Irish Americans request Green Hills of Tyrol.
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This is true. And the busiest day of the year, for anyone that plays the Great Highland Bagpipes, is St. Paddy's Day.
 

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