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Thread #66839 Message #3729953
Posted By: GUEST,Alan Ross
13-Aug-15 - 12:23 AM
Thread Name: Origins: MacCrimmon's Lament
Subject: RE: Origins: MacCrimmon's Lament
Itma has the Gaelic song has an on-line recording under the title of Piper McCrimmon.
This is the other song called
Piper McCrimmon transcribed:
Piper McCrimmon
registered writer/composer Hestor Nicol
Pub. Kerr's Music.
Introduction:
As I sit here alone, in the cool evening shade.
And look down on the glen where McCrimmon once played.
Like the cool crystal water, of yon mountain stream.
I hear the sweet melody, played in my dream....
Through the woodland, onto the shieling.
Once again I hear this refrain.
Through the forest, quietly steeling,
Ever enchanting I hear it again.
Lilting pipes are echoing eerliy,
Over valley, mountain and ben.
Piobaireachd sounding, restlessly, wearily.
Piper McCrimmon is haunting the glen.
Now I hear McCrimmon's farewell,
the golden sun sinks low in the west.
Still the woodland's under his spell
McCrimmon the piper has come home to rest.
Chorus:
Lilting pipes....
Piper McCrimmon is haunting the glen.
Piper McCrimmon is haunting the glen.