HullandHellandHalifax wrote:
Bloody sassenachs always wanting to steal from Scotland and call it their own. The tune was originally called "I fee'd a lad at Michaelmas"
Please see the folowing link for the truth about the tune. http://books.google.nl/books?id=l-PWAAA ... 22&f=false
The original tune consisted of the first four lines altered by Shield and used in his opera, however Burns notated the last two lines from an old man that he heard singing it, as he said, and I quote from a letter Burns wrote to Thomson "The air is but mediocre; but the following song, the old song of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript, until I took it down from an old man's singing, is enough to recommend any air.'
To be charitable you could say that the original melody was very old but subsequently altered and extended into the well known tune that it has become by many more hands than just Burns and William Shield.
Timtin I sentence you to eating one haggis per week for 6 months!!!!!
regards
Rob Roy MacGregor
Is that sufficient punishment for me? Methinks the forced listening to
bagpipe music non-stop and the wearing of a kilt (with no underwear)
for 6 months may also be required.
On second thoughts, none of these would be appropriate sanctions, since
the Scots didn't invent haggis, the bagpipes, or the kilt.
So maybe it's our Scottish friends who always want to steal from others
and call it their own!
Timtin wrote:Is that sufficient punishment for me? Methinks the forced listening to bagpipe music non-stop and the wearing of a kilt (with no underwear) for 6 months may also be required.
Don't forget that HHH plays the organ, and the organ sounds suspiciously like bagpipes when played badly...
Two more song transcriptions by Jules Rochard.
The Irish melodies The Minstrel Boy and My lodging is on the cold ground for 2H.
Published as usual by Edwin Ashdown, London, n.d. (c. 1860-80).
Two more song transcriptions by Jules Rochard.
The Irish melodies Terence's farewell to Kathleen and The harp that once thro' Tara's halls.
Published by Edwin Ashdown, London, n.d. (c. 1860-80).
Surprise, two song transcriptions by Jules Rochard.
The Irish songs Wearing'o'the green and The young May Moon for piano 2H.
Published by Edwin Ashdown, London, n.d. (c. 1860-80).
Two song transcriptions by Jules Rochard.
The Jacobite air The hundred pipers and the Scottish melody Auld lang syne (Souvenir d'Ecosse).
Published by Edwin Ashdown, London, n.d. (c. 1860-80).
