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Thread #7666   Message #3240934
Posted By: Jack Campin
18-Oct-11 - 04:03 PM
Thread Name: origin of the tune Staten Island
Subject: RE: origin of the tune Staten Island
Robertson called it "Staten Island". Some of his other American titles: "Our ship sails tomorrow bound for Maryland", "The March of the British forces upon leaving Philadelphia", "Bunkers Hill", "A Trip to Boston" and a "Yankie Dowdle" barely recognizable as the familiar tune. (Aird's version is much closer).

And I misremembered: the Black Watch fifers did have the C naturals.