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Thread #42222   Message #730905
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
16-Jun-02 - 10:08 AM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
937)   DREAM ANGUS  Described as "traditional" wherever referred to, and quite likely the tune is; I'm less convinced about the lyric, though. The DT file was transcribed from a record made by a Canadian band, and differs in wording from most examples to be found on the web; since I don't have any printed source for it, I can't say what would be the right of it. There is a verse omitted, however:
List to the curlew cryin' oh,
Fainter the echoes dyin' oh,
Even the birds and beasties are sleepin',
But my bonny bairn is weepin', weepin'.
The DT file also contains a particularly comical mis-hearing. Either the transcriber or the singer(s) have Dream Angus is hurtlin' through the heather, which is a ludicrously inappropriate image. The word should be hirplin(g), which is, to limp; move unevenly; hobble.

Midi made from staff notation found on the web (no source named), intended for bagpipe and without the appropriate f sharps indicated, amended by comparison with a couple of bagpipe midis and with a few notes split to accommodate the lyric.