Day 32 (Hundred Pipers)

Fiddle Tune a Day is my ambitious project to post a new fiddle tune on the web every day for the next year, using both youtube and tumblr.

Day32:
Hundred Pipers:

A very popular Scottish jig played as part of dance sets or just as part of a session. This tune also has words written by Lady Carolina Nairne (1766-1845):

Wi' a hundred pipers an a', an a'
Wi' a hundred pipers an a', an a'
We'll up and gi'e them a blaw, a blaw,
Wi' a hundred pipers an a', an' a'

O it's owre the Border awa', awa'
It's owre the Border awa', awa'
We'll on and we'll march to Carlisle ha'
Wi' its yetts, its castle an a', an a'

Oh our sodger lads look'd braw, look'd braw
Wi their tartan kilts an a', an a'
Wi bonnets, feathers and glittering gear
An' pibrochs sounding loud and clear
Will they a' return to their ain dear glen
Will they a' return, our highland men?
Second sicheted Sandy look'd fu' wae
An' mothers grat when they marched awa'

The Esk was swollen sae red, sae deep
But soulder by shoulder the brave lads keep
Taw' thousand swam to fell English ground
An' danced them dry to teh pibroch's sounmd
Dumfounder'd the English saw, they saw
Dumfounder'd they heard the blaw, the blaw
Dumfounder'd they a' ran awa', awa'
Frae the hundered pipers an a', an a'

Wi' a hundred pipers an a', an a'
Wi' a hundred pipers an a', an a'
We'll up and gi'e them a blaw, a blaw,
Wi' a hundred pipers an a', an' a'

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[maxdellapena1975]

Great!

[ifeelrelaxed]

Here's to a tune a day, cheers.

[fiddle4u]

A GREAT !  -- Scottish Tune -

jim,,,