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Thread #151491   Message #3535915
Posted By: Jack Campin
10-Jul-13 - 12:29 PM
Thread Name: Scots misty mountain song - identify!
Subject: RE: Scots misty mountain song - identify!
Or in Gaelic "Chi mi na mor-bheanna". Very popular as a pipe tune.

It's derived from the English song "Johnny's Too Long at the Fair". The Gaelic songwriter said to use that tune for it, but it drifted a bit over the next generation and what's sung now is clearly a different though related tune.