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As a tune with martial affiliations Highland Laddie is still widely played by the regimental bands and/or pipes and drums of the Scottish regiments. As a traditional Scottish tune, Highland Laddie is also commonly played on the bagpipes for Scottish dances. Typically categorised as a quick march "Highland Laddie" is normally written in 2/4 time.
O where and O where does your highland laddie dwell; He dwells in merry Scotland where the bluebells sweetly smell, And all in my heart I love my laddie well' [1] A broadside ballad version (words only) from slightly later in the 19th century makes references to George III and the Napoleonic wars: Oh, where, and oh, where is my highland laddie ...
The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...
The song is often accompanied by a circle singing game.Players form a circle and dance around one player. When they reach the end of the verse they stop, the single in the middle performs an action (such as Highland dancing), which everyone then imitates, before starting the verse again, often changing the single player to a boy, or a boy can join the center player - thus creating an extra ...
The Rantin Laddie: A young woman bears the bastard child of a ranting laddie. Scorned by friends and family, she sends a letter to the laddie, who turns out to be the Earl of Aboyne. The Earl, learning of the lady's circumstances, dispatches a large force to bring her to the castle as his wife. 241: The Baron o Leys
"Gypsy Laddie" The English And Scottish Popular Ballads Vol.2, F.J. Child Ballads: Ewan MacColl: 1961 "The Gypsy Laddie" Folk, Blues and Beyond: Davey Graham: 1964 "Seven Gypsies" All the Good Times: Alice Stuart: 1964 "Black Jack David" Remembrance of Things to Come: New Lost City Ramblers: 1966 "Black Jack Daisy" The Power of the True Love ...
Bonnie James Campbell or Bonnie George Campbell is Child ballad 210 (Roud 338). [1] The ballad tells of a man who has gone off to fight, but only his horse returns. The name differs across variants.
In 2006, a Devon folk singer, Sheelagh Allen, wrote a song about him, "The Highland Piper". [11] Millin played the pipes at Lord Lovat's funeral in 1995. [12] Millin, who suffered a stroke in 2003, died in hospital in Torbay on 17 August 2010, aged 88. [1] [4] His wife Margaret (née Dowdel, from Edinburgh) died in 2000. They were survived by ...