>Amazing Grace's entry in The Fiddler's Companion on the Ceolas site states
>that in Beyond the Hebrides, edited by Donald Fergusson, there is the
>following:
>"Since the melody is that of a bag-pipe tune and is a gapped-scale melody
>with a distinctly modal, plain-song character, it is very probably [sic] that
>Newton's composition was to an old Scottish melody. If not, early settlers
>may have adapted the lyrics to an old Scottish melody they brought with them."
It's got much the same harmonic pattern as the theme from "The Archers".
Is there a tradition that Ambridge was founded by Scottish settlers?
Its currency as a "Scottish" tune goes back to the band of the Royal
Scots Dragoons, who recorded it in 1971 and had a world-wide hit with
it. Anybody know why they picked it for their repertoire? Somebody
got a Piping Times from then?
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