Annotation:Farewell to the Tay
X: 1 T: Farewell to the Tay O: Old pipe tune Z: John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 6/8 L: 1/8 K: A e \ |A>AA cBA |e2A fec |A>AA cBA |fec B2 e| A>AA cBA |e2A fec |a2e fec |edB A2 :| e | a2e fec |Ace fec| a2e fec |Bce f2e| a2e fec |Ace fec|a2e fec |edB A2 |] e | a2e fec |Ace fec |a2e fec | Bce f2e| A>AA cBA |e2A fec |a2e fec |1 edB A2 |]2 efg a2 |]
FAREWELL TO THE TAY. Scottish, March (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The River Tay is Scotland's longest river, descending from the western Highlands and flowing easterly across Scotland to empty into the Firth of Tay near Dundee. The tune was originally composed as a 6/8 pipe march, attributed to Peter McDonald[1] and appears in David Glen's Highland Bagpipe Tutor (1876-1901). Cape Breton fiddlers have converted it to a fiddle jig.
- ↑ Kate Dunlay, liner notes to Bill Lamey's "From Cape Breton to Boston and Back: Classic House Sessions of Traditional Cape Breton Music 1956-1977" (2000).