>My questions: does anyone know where this tune came from? The Gaelic on the
>RR website is "Chi mi na mor-bheanna". What is the tune about?
>From page 13 of Helen Creighton and Calum MacLeod's "Gaelic Songs in Nova
Scotia" (1979):
"Gaelic words by John Cameron, Ballachulish, Scotland, composed in 1856.
The first title of the song was "D�il ri Baile Chaolais fhaicinn," "Hoping
to see Ballachulish." The original air was fashioned after "Johnny stays
long at the Fair." A bagpipe adaptation of this song appears on page 242
of the "Scots Guards, Standard Settings of Pipe Music." This tune was a
favourite of the late King George VI and was played at his funeral, also at
the late President John F. Kennedy's funeral."
I can send you the translation if you want it Cynthia.
- Kate
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Kate Dunlay & David Greenberg
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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