The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53309   Message #820166
Posted By: sharyn
06-Nov-02 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: The Great Silkie
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Great Silkie
Alison McMorland sings this on Belt Wi' Colours Three (Tangent Records, 1977) The note says the tune comes from John Sinclair, Flotta, Orkney in 1938 and the text from Anne Gilchrist. This is the "traditional" tune others are speaking of -- it is the more dramatic tune, the tune Baez sings is prettier. Coincidentally, as I write, Ray Fisher (on tape) is singing a variation of this tune that is almost a new tune in and of itself).