Another 12.11.12.11 tune that seems to work with the text is "Handful of Laurel", the tune probably best known in the US as "The Cowboy's Lament / The Streets of Laredo". I've added its MIDI as an alternative melody for the Scots text in my hymnal.

I've also taken the opportunity to add the Auld & Hill Esperanto version of 'The Road and the Miles to Dundee' to La Lilandejo's song collection, and to add W. J. Downes' original Esperanto metrical 23rd Psalm (Ja paŝtas min la Eternul'), which is sung to Crimond and thus the cultural equivalent of "The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want", the hymn Griffy said seemed "clunky" to him, to my online hymnal.

Anybody know anything about the tune "Blacklands" or its composer, Ray Steadman-Allen? The Cyber Hymnal has a photo but precious little else, at He Giveth More Grace.

Haruo [= Leland, formerly Liland]