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Tattie Bogle Lyr Req: By the Lochside + Lochanside (28) Lyr Add: LOCHANSIDE (Jim Malcolm) 29 Sep 17


Well, maybe Jack doesn't like them much, but here are Jim Malcolm's words to the Lochanside tune fwiw. I don't dislike them, but probably just prefer to play the tune.
The tune has 3 sections and Jim sings his song as follows:
AA BB C AA BB CC (where A, B and C refer to sections, not keys!!)


LOCHANSIDE                                Lyrics: Jim Malcolm
Pipe Tune Lochanside by PM J McLellan of Dunoon

Come the winter, cold and dreary
Brings the hawk doon frae the high scree
Tae the whins where snowy hares hide
All aroun the Lochanside
Come the spring, the land lies weary
Till the sun shines out sae cheery,
Brings the bloom, for all of June's pride
All aroun the Lochanside.

If you'd been you'd have seen the scatter
O' the peezies o'er the machair,
When above the tawny owl glides
All around the Lochanside.
And the heron he comes a-creeping
Through the rashes so green and dreeping
Tae the pool where wily trout slide
All around the Lochanside.

Aye if you ever hae a reason
Tae be here in ony season
Come and try the barley bree in
Round the fire on Lochanside.

Summer time the fish are louping,
Dippers in the burnies couping,
Swallows fly from dawn til even-tide
All around the Lochanside.
By the autumn, the pinks are winging
Blaeberries o'er the moors are hinging
Salmon through the surging spate fight
All around the Lochanside.

If ye'd been ye'd have seen the scatter
O the peezies o'er the machair,
When above the tawny owl glides
All around the Lochanside.
And the heron he comes a-creeping
Through the rashes so green and dreeping
Tae the pool where wily trout slide
All around the Lochanside.

Aye if you ever hae a reason,
Tae be here in ony season,
Come and try the barley bree in
Round the fire on Lochanside
Aye if you ever hae a notion
Tae be welcomed with devotion
Travel home o'er any ocean
Tae be here on Lochanside.


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