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Thread #67859   Message #1759578
Posted By: GUEST,Jack Campin
14-Jun-06 - 06:34 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Battle of Waterloo
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords: Battle of Waterloo (Old Blind Dogs)
For what it's worth: the pipe tune dates from quite a while after the battle (I don't think there were any pipers at Waterloo anyway), but it's a version of a much older tune. It derives from Tannahill's song "My Braw Highland Laddie", which in turn used a Gaelic song air, "Mor nighean a Ghiberlain" (Marion the beggarman's daughter) which was first put down on paper in the 1740s. There is a fancy arrangment of it in one of Oswald's collections.

"My Braw Highland Laddie" is a standard ceilidh band dance tune, you should find chords for it easily.