Soldier's Return

cozy old fiddle tune from New England...
heard it from Tim Eriksen's channel http://www.youtube.com/user/batfancy
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zoe/39562410193

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Music

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• fiddle
• tune
• acoustic
• morris
• old
• time
• traditional

[uptonsavoie]

The tune is an old Scots one called "When Wild Wars." Lady Nairne put some words to it, calling it "Charlie's Landing", referring to Bonnie Prince Charlie. Robert Burns put some bawdy lyrics to it, calling it "The Mill, Mill, O." I've always played it in standard GDAE, but I am now tempted to try it in GDGD. Lovely tune, and you play it well.

[zoeplankton]

@uptonsavoie fantastic bit of info there! thanks for that. very interesting. I know Tim Eriksen plays it in cross-tuning, so that's how I've always tried it :)

[gwalton1]

Are you using cross-tuning? If so, what is your tuning. Very good by the way.

[zoeplankton]

@gwalton1 I believe this is GDGD. Goodluck! And thanks for listening :)

[AEngleSaex]

Really well played! A Joy to listen to.

The tune was well pointed out, nice harmony notes and lovely rythym!

In England this tune is known as 'blue eyed stranger'.

It illustrates how accurately these traditions are handed down that generations and the atlantic have not significantly changd this tune on eiter side of the water.

i have a vid of me playin this tune on anglo concertina.

[zoeplankton]

@AEngleSaex very cool! thanks for the info on blue eyed stranger. i'll check out your video now :) ~z

[dungoran]

@uptonsavoie

Also known as a Morris tune, where it is a version of Highland Mary. It is only New England because the Scots took it there.

[isabellanakahara]

I sure enjoyed your interpretation. Great fiddling

[haikumathieu]

One can never be fed up of cross-tunings. Or of drones.

And, of course, one can never never be fed up of Tim.

[zoeplankton]

@NatureLover987 i did! it's really a lovely one. i think i got to see tim play it first, so i understood the cross tuning and other details a bit more.