Annotation:Dr. MacKay's Farewell to Creagorry
X: 1 T:Dr. Mackay's Farewell to Creagorry T:Eilean Dorcha; Away to the Westward Z:Paul Hardy's Session Tunebook 2010 (see www.paulhardy.net). Creative Commons cc by-nc-sa licenced. R:Air C:Ian Maclachlan, 1958 O:Scotland M:3/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 F:http://www.pghardy.net/concertina/tunebooks/pgh_session_tunebook.abc 2011-01-30 14:58:43 UT K:G DE|"Am"A3 E A2|"Em"G3 A G2|"C"E3 D C2|"G"D4 GA|"G"B3 A G2|"Em"G d3 D2|"Am"B3 d B2|"D7"A4 DE| "Am"A3 E A2|"Em"G3 A G2|"C"E3 D C2|"G"D4 GA|"G"B3 D dB|"D7"A3 D BA|"C"G3 G G2|"G"G4 Bc|| "^CHORUS" "G"d3 D D2|"Em"B3 A G2|"C"E C3 E2|"G"D4 GA|"G"B3 A G2|"Em"G d3 D2|"Am"B3 d B2|"D7"A4 DE| "Am"A3 E A2|"Em"G3 A G2|"C"E3 D C2|"G"D4 GA|"G"B3 D dB|"D7"A3 D BA|"C"G3 G G2|"G"G4|]
DOCTOR MACKAY'S FAREWELL TO CREAGORRY. AKA and see "Dark Island," "Dr. McInnes's Farewell to South Uist." Scottish, Waltz. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A pipe lament (also rendered as a waltz) usually attributed to Hebrides accordion player Iain McLachlan (1927-1995), who composed it in honor of a local physician (see also note for "annotation:Dr. McInnes's Farewell to South Uist" for more on composer attributions). The tune was used as the theme for the 1963 BBC series The Dark Island and became so popular that the name stuck and is nowadays usually called "The Dark Island." Creagorry is one of the Outer Hebrides islands, west of the Scottish mainland.
