I just stumbled on this music group a few days ago, and was fairly taken back with their music. What can I say? This music doesn’t fail to get my foot tapping, and it leaves me breathless. I loved it so much I downloaded quite a few of these awesome songs my computer. This is truly a must listen.
… more usually spelt Mairi’s Wedding (aka The Lewis Bridal Song) … a tune I enjoy playing. It’s simple enough for me to play reasonably well (well, I think it’s reasonably well). Seem’s unusual to hear it with an Irish accent … it’s Scot’s, of course. I seem to remember it from infant school, along with “Road to The Isles” (and several other “standards” like the song about the “bullgine”)
X:1
T:Mairi’s Wedding
T:Lewis Bridal Song
O:Trad
H:The well-known words for this song, and the Scottish Country Dance that goes
H:with it, were written for Mary McNiven, born in 1908, and still alive in 1998.
H:The lyrics were written by Johnny Bannerman for her birthday in 1935, in Gaelic.
H:Her wedding to Captain John Campbell was in 1941. The tune itself is older.
H:It was published in Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s “Songs of the Hebrides” (1909).
R:reel
Z:John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu>
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:G
D>D DE | GA B2 | AG EG | BA Bd | D>D DE | GA B2 | AG EC | D2 D2
|:d>d de | dc B2 | AG EG | BA B<d |d>d de | dc B2 | AG EC | D2 D2
This version as found on the 'net includes a low C, OK on the recorder, but you can take it up to a G if playing a whistle. Also the D>D at the start and throughout can be replaced with D>E … as per the version in Bill Ochs book.
