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| TANNAHILL WEAVERS
SLEEVE NOTES |
dancing
feet |
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tannahill
weavers |
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| The
Campbleton Kiltie Ball |
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| The Back of the Moon |
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| Kelsae Brig |
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| Put Me in the Great
Chest |
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| Sergeant MacDonald's
Reel |
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The Campbleton Kiltie Ball by Pipe
Major John MacLellan
The Back of the Moon by A. G. Kenneth
Kelsae Brig by Ian Hardie
Put Me in the Great Chest traditional, arranged by the Tannahill Weavers
Sergeant MacDonald's Reel by Pipe Sergeant E. MacDonald
This is a set of one strathspey and four
reels. The Campbleton Kiltie Ball was written by Pipe Major John
MacLellan. The Back of the Moon is by A. G. Kenneth of Stronachullin,
a well known composer with a penchant to strange titles such as The Lady
in the Bottle.
Fiddler Ian Hardie is responsible for Kelsae Brig, which is included in
his recent book A Breath of Fresh Airs, published by Bowmont Music, Kelso,
Roxburghshire.
Our version of Put Me in the Great Chest is loosely based on one in Angus
MacKay's Piper's Assistant 1840 where it goes by its Gaelic title Cuir Sa
Chiste Mņir Mi. It has nothing whatever to do
with any fantasies we may or may not have regarding Playboy centrefolds.
The great chest is, of course, a coffin. The story goes that as the
composer of this fine tune lay on his death bed he asked for a last bottle
of stout. He finished it and requested that the bedroom window be
opened.
"I will throw this empty bottle and wherever it lands is
where I wish my final resting place to be."
He was buried on top of the wardrobe. |
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