Very sad. RIP.

BTW, another fine version of this magical song on The Battlefield Band's album 'Rain, Hail or Shine'. On the album it's renamed 'Norland Wind' and is included as the song within a wonderful set of tunes, 'Magheraclone', 'The Royal Scottish Pipers Society', 'Gardez Loo' and 'Donald MacLean'. The song is sung by the brilliant and very sadly missed Davy Steele. A real neck-hair-prickler. Give it a listen, you won't regret it.

TBB's sleeve notes say-
"The Norland Wind was originally a poem entitled 'The Wild Geese' written in 1915 by the great Angus poet Violet Jacob, who was one of the finest Scots language writers this century. The poem was set to music by Jim Reid and included as the title song on his fine album 'I Saw The Wild Geese Flee' (on Springthyme SPRCD 1015). Lovely words and a beautiful tune."

Amen.