Thanks susanne! Hope you're well. Please spread the word in Germany if you can.

Hamish recorded PM Robertson in 1952 for the School of Scottish Studies, and an article by Gary West in 2005 in the School's journal 'Tocher' no. 58 features a transcription of it. This article is also reprinted in the Nov 2010 book, 'Borne on the Carrying Stream: The Legacy of Hamish Henderson', edited by Eberhard Bort of Edinburgh Folk Club.

Hamish wrote an obit of 'Pipie' as he was known for the May 1962 edition of 'Sing'. The melody was known as 'Farewell to the Creeks'. Hamish wrote:

"Farewell to the Creeks, his most celebrated tune, was composed in 1915 when he was a prisoner-of-war in Germany. The creeks are the Creeks of Port Knockie, on the Banffshire coast—an uncle of Jimmy's had a house there, and he spent a holiday at this uncle's when he was a child. I heard the tune played in the piazza of Linguaglossa in Sicily by the massed pipe band of 153 Brigade of the 51st Highland Division, shortly after the end of the Sicilian campaign in 1943, and wrote the song Farewell to Sicily to this noble tune of Jimmy's almost immediately. Twice, I had the opportunity of sending him greetings by singing the song on the radio."