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Thread #14849   Message #132034
Posted By: Murray on Saltspring
05-Nov-99 - 02:53 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Black Watch
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Black Watch
Gargoyle: a "wappinschaw" [variously spelt] is a show of weapons, a get-together of a clan or district, armed to the teeth, where they showed off their weaponry and had contests [rifle-shooting and what have you].

The IRA song, which is interesting, seems to be the one Ferret was after. But there's quite a few others as you see above. Burns has a song in the Scots Musical Museum set to the tune "The Black Watch" [Gaelic An freiceadan dubh], namely "When Guilford good". The tune is also called "The Earl of Glencairn's Strathspey".