Derek Hoy wrote:

> Nigel asked:
> > More Addie Harper - is this well known?
> > 
> > X:346
> > T:Highland Soldier
> > D:Wick S.C.D., By the Peat Fire (n.d.)
> ...

> I think so.  Tony Cuffe sang a version on JTBairns' first album.

So he did! The sleeve notes say he got it from Bob Cherry (I think -
I've forgotten already and I'm not going back down into the cellar!),
who learnt it from an elderly Glasgow piper. It (the song) was
apparently popular with the Highland Light Orchestr... em, I mean
Infantry, during WW1. The tune's reminiscent of another song, The
Shepherd Laddie, which I know sung by a friend, but I think I've heard
it recently by someone else, possibly Christine Kydd.

-- 
Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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