I have a recording by Andy M Stewart and his sleevenotes begin "The most outrageous true story I have ever come across in any song!"

From the Cantaria website: "Andy writes about this song: Supposedly a true story ,but possibly occurring at Kinkel in Perthshire rather than in Dunkel' (we often drop the d ). Finding the regime under the Church and it's "fire and brimstone" minister far too rigid and strict for their tastes, the fun-loving inhabitants of this little Perthshire village got together one day--and hung him! They silenced the church bell and installed a large whisky-still in the church. Thus fortified and with McDonald their piper blasting away from the pulpit, their Sundays were transformed into a series of tremendous Ceilidhs. I set the words to the old Jacobite air 'Over the water to Charlie'."

Last year I downloaded lyrics from another source (don't know the URL) which had this information - "Tune: Bonny Dundee Note: Published in A North Country Garland, 1824"
is that where the tune Bonnie Dundee is published or the lyrics Parish of dunkeld. perhaps Malcolm Douglas will know??


do any of you recall a drinks commercial which featured a similar theme?