Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where does "Donal Don" (on the new Jock Tamson's Bairns recording)
> come from? The tune dates back to the 1840s but I can't find any
> trace of it under the JTB title, except for a bunch of webpages with
> no references.
Ford's Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland (1899+1901), but I can't
remember Ford's notes about it (I'm moving house and everything's in
disarray). The tune, which I know as "MacGregor's March" or "Rob Roy's
March" - is that the one you've traced to the 1840s? I've heard Norman
Kennedy sing it as a puirt-a-beul on one of his albums. It's been known as
a polka in Ireland under names like "Kit White's No. 2" etc. I've also got
it on a dance sheet as "Old Highland Air", but I don't know where it came
from.
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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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