Robbie Burns Day

[JM]

[video=youtube;X8eidG59Z-Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8eidG59Z-Q[/video]

 

[Scott1]

Pretty good!

 

[JM]

Just to be clear...that's not me.

 

[jfschultz]

If I may put on my old curmudgeon hat, Bruce’s address to the troops at Bannockburn needs a more militant tone.

 

[Peairtach]

Not bad. Funnt accent. Is that someone with a Canadian accent trying to sound like a Scot?

The tune often tends to be played/sung as a 6/8 slow - or slower - air/lament rather than as a more rousing and martial 4/4 march these days. There's quite a difference.

This pipe band are playing the slow 6/8 version going into 4/4 marches. I don't see the more martial version on youtube.

YouTube - 48th Highlanders of Canada - Scots Wha Hae-Lass of Fyvie...

 

[JennyG]

Not but what there is in the heart of many a Scot
For Scotia's other national bard a very soft spot.
He was from his youth quite drawn to terrible disasters
Of the kind that could not be remedied merely with sticking-plasters.
His name was William McGonagal,
And he could always be counted on for this kind of tribute poetical:

.....It must have been an awful sight,
To witness in the dusky moonlight,
While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,
Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay,
Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay,
I must now conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.

(I only wrote the first bit)

 

[LawrenceU]

Not bad. Funnt accent. Is that someone with a Canadian accent trying to sound like a Scot?

I think he is trying to mimic Charlie Zahm.

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(I only wrote the first bit)

And, you did quite well. Thank you for bringing up one o' my favourite poets. McGonagall has helped me through many a sleepless night and trying period. Dundee's finest

 

[jfschultz]

Not but what there is in the heart of many a Scot
For Scotia's other national bard a very soft spot.
He was from his youth quite drawn to terrible disasters
Of the kind that could not be remedied merely with sticking-plasters.
His name was William McGonagal,
And he could always be counted on for this kind of tribute poetical:

.....It must have been an awful sight,
To witness in the dusky moonlight,
While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,
Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay,
Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay,
I must now conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.

(I only wrote the first bit)

I filled in for a voiceless Master of Ceremonies at a Burns Nicht this last Saturday. As part of the response to the Immortal Memory, I added "We can be truly thankful ... as Robert Burns. Otherwise we may have to endure McGonagall Nicht."

McGonagall did exaggerate a bit, it was fewer than "90 lives were taken away." (This is in the first verse of the Tay Bridge Disaster.)

 

[JennyG]

MacGonagall Nicht !!
what a great idea!