This score composition includes 2 page(s). “Yon’s aa right you know, whether you believe it or no”.Download Anonymous Scotland The Brave sheet music and printable PDF notes for Piano & Vocal. Saying, ‘You are my Donald returned to Glencoe.’ She fell on his arms while the tears down did flow Which in parting she gave him as a token of love Then seeing her so constant he pulled out a glove The power of the French he will soon overthrowĪnd in splendour return to my arms in Glencoe. Like his gallant ancestors, disdain to yield. MacDonald’s true valour when tried in the field, That the man you love dearly perhaps is laid low. The power of the French it is hard to pull downĬausing many a brave hero to die of his wound. My Donald can never from his promise departįor love, truth and honour are found in his heart,Īnd if I ne’er see him still singly I’ll goĪnd mourn for my Donald, the pride of Glencoe. The bonnie young lassie he left in Glencoe. Perhaps your Macdonald regards not your nameĪnd has fixed his affection on some foreign dame,Īnd may have forgotten for aught that you know I once had a sweetheart, Macdonald by name.Īnd a maid I’ll remain till he returns to Glencoe. We’ll bless the happy hour that we met in Glencoe. I said my bonnie lassie your enchanting smileĪnd comely young features doth my heart beguile, Which had once pleased MacDonald the pride of Glencoe. Her ribbons and tartans around her did flow There approached me a lassie as bright as the sun. Like her who the prize on Mount Ida had won Near the slopes to a fountain that lies in Glencoe. I carelessly wandered where I did not know

515.īy Flora’s gay mantle the fields decorate. Willie said that it was one that his father sang. Sanderson’s song sheet catalogue of Favourite Songs in Country Districts which was still reaching Whalsay in the 1940s. Scots traveler Sheila Stewart won a prize in the first festival of the Traditional Music and Song Association in Blairgowrie in 1970 singing this ballad, but with quite a different air (see Tobar an Dualchais ‘Donald’s return to Glencoe’). Willie’s tune is reminiscent of some of the many that Gavin Greig collected in Aberdeenshire. Willie Williamson SA1971.219.5Ī much traveled and popular broadsheet ballad harking back to the Napoleonic wars, for it was known not only in the United Kingdom and and Ireland but also Australia and throughout the maritime provinces of Canada and the USA.

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