My friend May, a poet, singer and fiddler and ardent member of the SNP was dying of cancer, and asked me to assist with her funeral plans.
I was to organise a particular piper with certain tunes to be played outside the church at the start and end of the service (we ended up with two as another one demanded to play too!)but the most important thing for May was that I should have the organist play the Land of the Leal as her coffin was carried from the church- -purely because the tune WAS hey Tutti Tattie / Scots Wha Hae albeit at a slower pace.
It really pleased May to think of the great and the good and in particular the Tories and unionists of this community who wished to be seen at her funeral, to have to stand for the Scottish National Anthem at the end of her service!!!!
We had some laughs about that in the weeks before she passed!!!!
Gaun' yersel' May!!