Lyrics from the DT. Chords by 'Trial & Error' ;>)
The tune of 'Scottish Soldier' is different, at the end of the last line of the chorus, to the pipe tune

GREEN HILLS OF TYROL (DT Lyrics, Chords added)

[C]There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier
Who wandered [G7] far away and soldiered [C]far away
There was none bolder, with good broad shoulders,
He fought in [G7] many a fray and fought and [C] won

He's seen the glory, he's told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
But now he's sighing his heart is crying
To leave these green hills of Tyrol

cho:[C] Because these [F] green hills are not [C] highland hills
Or the [G7] Islands hills they're not [C] my lands hills,
As fair as [F] these green foreign [C] hills may be
They are [G7] not the hills of [C] home..

And now this soldier, this Scottish soldier,
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
Sees leaves are falling, and death is calling
And he will fade away, on that dark land

He called his piper, his trusty piper
And bade him sound a lay, a pibroch sad to play
Upon a hillside but Scottish hillside
Not on these green hills of Tyrol

And now this soldier this Scottish soldier
Who wanders far no more, and soldiers far no more
Now on a hillside, a Scottish hillside
You'll see a piper play this soldier home

He's seen the glory, he's told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
But he will cease now, he is at peace now
Far from these green hills of Tyrol

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Note from Joe Offer: these are the lyrics we have in the Digital Tradition (with chords added). Apparently, these lyrics were written by Andy Stewart, but the tune is traditional. There is no entry on this song in the Traditional Ballad Index.

Roud Number 13781, also called "Green Hills of Tyrol," is a different song.

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Thread #613   Message #3958405
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Oct-18 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: ADD:Scottish Soldier/Hills of Tirol - Andy Stewart
Subject: ADD: Green Hills of Tyrol (broadside)

Well, just to confuse things a bit, there is a broadside with a completely different song with the same title.

GREEN HILLS OF TYROL

Green hills of Tyrol, again I see
The home of childhood so dear to me,
Again I press your verdant shade,
Where oft my footsteps have wildly strayed
    Once more I am near him
    My own one, my fond one
    Again I shall hear him,
    Love's accents repeat.
While to his sighs my heart replies,
And e’ery glance is soft and sweet.
Green hills of Tyrol &c.

From yonder woodlands sounding clear,
His merry bugle note I hear,
With eye of hawh and falcon keen,
He comes, be comes — my Tyrolien.
    Once more I behold him,
    My own one, my fond one,
    To my bosom I’ll fold him,
    My own Tyrolien.

Haste, haste, my love, why linger now,
The sun is shedding its parting glow,
The chamois seeks his peaceful shade,
And homeward wanders the mountain maid.
    Oh, come then, and cheer me,
    Again thou shalt hear me,
    Sing love’s tender strain,
While every note my lips repeat,
As soft and sweet tbou breathe again.

Hark, hark! I hear his well known cry,
While answering echoes makes reply.
Now, now he wavs his scarf so green,
He comes, he comes my own Tyrolien.
    Once more I behold him,
    My dear one, my fond one,
    To my bosom I'll fold him,
My own Tyrolien.


Bodleian Ballads has a number of broadsides with these same lyrics. Here's one: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/05000/01125.gif

Roud 13781


Is there a standard melody that goes with these lyrics?

-Joe-