Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg wrote:
>
> >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 "Dùil 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.
That's a sweet tune. Much better on the pipes or voice then it is on
fiddle though :-)
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