Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on November 14th 2004 by Gard.
This tune has been added to 50 tunebooks.
Also known as Lord Lovat's Lament March.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Lord Lovat's Lament
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Amaj
(AB)|c2 (ce) dcBA|(c<e)(e>f) e2 (fg)|a2 (ea) (fe)(cA)|(c<B)(B>c) B2 (AB)|
c2 (ce) (dc)(BA)|c<ee>e fecA|(d>e) (fe/d/) c<edB|(B<A)(A>B) A2 (fg)|
a2 (ea) fecA|(c<e)(e>f) e2 (fg)|a2 (ea) (fe)(cA)|(c<B)(B>c) B2 (fg)|
a2 (ea) (fe)(cA)|c<ee>e fecA|(d>e) (fe/d/) c<edB|(B<A)(A>B) A4 ||
This is a tune I know nothing about, but I've learned it by Douglas Stuart from Inverness.
# Posted on November 14th 2004 by Gard
Check out 78th Fraser Highlanders
Their "Live in Concert in Ireland" CD begins with this tune. An awesome sound to hear a tight pipe band playing this tune.
# Posted on November 14th 2004 by dirtyheel
The key is wrong it should be A mixolydian not A major. This is one of my favorite tunes to play on GH Pipes.
# Posted on November 21st 2004 by Why Bother?
Sounds like a march.
# Posted on May 12th 2007 by Dr. Dow
"Lord Lovat's Lament" ~ The Fiddler's Companion ~ march
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/LORC_LORP.htm
LORD LOVAT'S LAMENT (Cumha Mhic Shimidh). AKA and see "Lament for the Highland Clearances." Scottish (originally), Canadian; Slow March (4/4 time). Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. A Major (Johnson, Perlman): G Major (Martin, Sweet). Standard. AB (Johnson, Sweet): AABB (Martin, Perlman). A well‑known bagpipe march which entered fiddle repertory, perhaps through fife and drum sources. The piece is said to have been composed by either Ewen MacGregor or his pupil David Fraser, both pipers to Simon Lord Lovat, famous in the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellion of 1745 (see note for “Lord Lovat Beheaded”).
# Posted on May 13th 2007 by ceolachan
Key
We play this in the pub in G and it sound good not so sure about A it needs a a Gsharp
# Posted on March 30th 2008 by john gould
kinda 2/4 march -y
# Posted on June 22nd 2009 by birlibirdie
Lord Lovat's
Without doubt in A mix. Gnat. it's a highland pipe tune.
# Posted on June 22nd 2009 by bogman
Lord Lovat's Lament
Twenty years ago, or so, I spoke with a knowledgable piper about this tune. I asked him about Ossian's version as an air (the tune is simply far better as an air). According to him, the tune was borrowed from a Gaelic song, and is properly played as an air. It wasn't until the British army "got hold of it" that it was transformed into a march. Supporting his position is the fact that the tune is played as an air or slow march in the background of a scene in the old movie "Gunga Din".
# Posted on July 14th 2011 by borderpipe