Several birds killed with (almost) one stone:

2355)  MO Ri GEAL DILEAS  The DT text has become corrupted at some point (the title, for example, sholuld be MO RÙN GEAL, DÌLEAS); perhaps Dick is fixing it in the current update. There is no English translation given, though I put a link to one elsewhere, in this thread:   My Fair and Rare One  I've made a midi from the notation given in Alfred Moffat's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands; it's maybe a little faster than most people would sing it nowadays, but I give it as written.  The tune for verse and chorus is the same.

365)  THE BLEACHER LASSIE O' KELVIN HA'  This is an expanded version of one of several sets in the Greig-Duncan Collection; in other cases I'd want to be off to the library to consult it for the exact tune, but it's not that old a song, though it's been widely popular in tradition in NE Scotland, and it has always been sung to the air of Mo Rùn Geal Dìleas.  I have used the first midi as a base for it, then, and modified it only where required to fit it to the DT text.  I have, however, doubled all note values as it's generally sung quite slowly.

366)  THE BLEACHER LASSIE OF KELVINHAUGH (2)  Another version of the above, from a record by Ewan MacColl.  It can share the same midi and like it!

3702)  WHEN FIRST I WENT TO CALEDONIA  This too is sung to the same tune.  I've modified the Kelvinhaugh midi with reference to a recording by Waterson/Carthy, who learnt it in Cape Breton where the song was made (and met a relative of the author, apparantly).


Malcolm