Pianophilia

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

HullandHellandHalifax wrote:Timtin I sentence you to eating one haggis per week for 6 months!!!!!

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.

Timtin wrote:Fred - if one heard an organ being played badly, it certainly wouldn't be HHH at the console!