Jack Campin wrote: > >> Anyone else know these polkas? The second one starts off a bit like > >> "The Rattlin Bog/John McAlpine"...
> The first half of the tune is the same as what I know as "The March > to the Battlefield". > Is "The Rattlin Bog" the Irish name for it? I've heard Irish > musicians play it. Yeah, it's a song. "Ha, ha, the rattling bog, the bog down in the valley, O...And in that bog there was a tree, a rare tree, a rattling tree..." Ted Hastings pointed out the similarity between the tune for that song and the Scots tune "John McAlpine". I don't know "March to the Battlefield" but I have it in Jimmy Shand's Bagpipe March book, so I'll fetch it up later. -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
