In 1975, my own mother's adopted mother was dying, and my father Stewart Ross (1929-1993), a Scottish singer of Inverness, Scotland, was landed on a death watch taking his turn. To give himself something to do in this task, he setlyrics to the Gaelic tune, which was being played by Scottish Dance bands on the circuit in accordion medleys. He hadn't heard Calum Kennedy's Gaelic song version and didn't know there were other words to it. So he set wholly new words to it.   Anyway, sentimental stuff about mothers was on his mind, so he wrote his cheesy but lovely words. They are still more cheerful than the Gaelic words or their translations.   He frequently wrote songs about being far from home, even though he'd never been further than England. That was his style, though he later turned to Country Music. In a couple of cases he set lyrics to tunes, but mostly he wrote whole words and music songs.