I wonder what version of "Flowers of the Forest" Bogle had in mind. The pipe version has a completely different feel to the song - it's a rather uninteresting march tune. The pipes can't play anything like the original. My guess is that Bogle was imagining something that could never exist, the pipes playing it with the expression and modal flexibility of a singer.

I detest the plodding verbosity of Bogle's songs. Brian McNeill is just as bad.