The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #28624   Message #3221935
Posted By: GUEST
12-Sep-11 - 10:30 AM
Thread Name: Versions: So Be Easy and Free When You're Drinkin'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Be Easy and Free When You're. . .
hi there lots of lyric been composed about my family of stewart's and there ways of life that wance was,words and things of the past that truley was, its strange how people can compose these lyrics into ballads, my family of travelling stewarts i come off , my two great grand uncles one is jock stewart from the moss o burrledale out side Inverurie in 1924, and the other jock stewart is the piper to the 7th duke of atholl, also he was the same man in the song (the canny gane man) the first time I heard that song getting sung it was Billy Key he was in my house in Kemnay doing some recordings for the Radoi, he was asking me if I ever had heard that ward to that song and he asked me if I knew that jock stewart he was singing, I said yes its my great grand uncle jock stewart, Sheala Stewart from Blair, its her Grandfather, your singing about,see jock and his two brothers,piper Duncan stewart, William, was my two great grandfather's the other brother's was David,and his brothers was piper Donald,and also Sandy,all good pipers.