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28 Mar 00 - 01:19 PM (#202690) Subject: DONALD MACGILLAVRY From: GUEST,MERRILLEE OVERDONE I believe this tune is NOT copyrighted. My singing group made a first pass on it last practice and it sounds GREAT on our practice recording! Their complaint is that no one knows what it means. I do know that it is Jacobian. The web has a great Fawkian Site that comes up along with ALL the jacobian mathematics so I come to you MudCats to see if anyone has a translation and the story that MUST go along with this song. Please give me a history lesson and some word translations or somewhere I can go to get it. As always; indebted to you all! Merrillee |
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28 Mar 00 - 02:32 PM (#202741) Subject: RE: DONALD MACGILLAVRY From: MMario http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=723 http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=8273
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28 Mar 00 - 06:14 PM (#202887) Subject: RE: DONALD MACGILLAVRY From: Irish sergeant Merrilee: If it is the same song I'm thinking of The Battlefield Band recorded it some years ago on their album the story continues. In English. Neil |
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28 Mar 00 - 07:12 PM (#202918) Subject: RE: DONALD MACGILLAVRY From: GUEST The above-mentioned threads contain just about all the information I could find on the 'net EXCEPT: There is a Czech (!) version of the song at http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~rokyta/asonance/text-cze/gillavry.htm - and a genealogical site for MacGillavry - in Dutch! - at http://www.antenna.nl/~daktari/gillavry.htm - These are probably useless to you, but it's always fun to marvel at what worders the Internet hath wrought. |
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28 Mar 00 - 10:57 PM (#203034) Subject: RE: DONALD MACGILLAVRY From: Pelrad Be sure to follow MMario's second blue clicky; Barry Finn posted not only the words to Donald MacGillavry but also a translation of many of the unfamiliar words. |
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28 Mar 00 - 11:17 PM (#203042) Subject: RE: DONALD MACGILLAVRY From: GUEST,Bruce O. What tune do you have?. The one with the song in Hogg's 'Jacobite Relics of Scotland', I #60, 1819, is probably no longer copyright protected. |
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28 Mar 00 - 11:37 PM (#203055) Subject: RE: DONALD MACGILLAVRY From: MMario And I know there are several variations out there that ARE copyrighted arrangments of the lyrics as well as tune. *grrrrr* |
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29 Mar 00 - 01:29 PM (#203347) Subject: RE: DONALD MACGILLAVRY From: GUEST,Merrillee I have the Hogg lyrics but of course the only recording I have is from Silly Wizard. Thanks for all the information. I should have done thread check first! Thanks, M |