By the way, another folk singer who has recorded The Braes of Balquhidder to the tune of Wild Mountain Thyme is John MacDonald, whose recording of it is on Amazon and Spotify among other places.

Also, the rampantscotland website claims here that the The Braes o' Balquhidder has the same tune as Wild Mountain Thyme.

But it seems unlikely to me that Robert Tannahill set it to that tune, given that McKellar, Gluck, Peterson and The Tannahill Weavers all sing it to the same, very different, tune (or almost the same in the case of The Tannahill Weavers) - especially as Gluck recorded it in 1910, long before Wild Mountain Thyme was written.

So I'm guessing that after Wild Mountain Thyme was written, some people started singing The Braes o' Balquhidder to the tune of Wild Mountain Thyme because of the fact that they share such similar words.

Another possibility, though, is that The Braes o' Balquhidder had acquired two different tunes even before Wild Mountain Thyme was written, and that Francis McPeake used one of those for Wild Mountain Thyme.

Can anyone clarify?

Many thanks

Dave