Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 2nd 2006 by nigelg.
This tune has been added to 88 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Famous Baravan, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
d2c dAB | d2c def | g2f gef | g2f gef |
aaa aed | c2e ecA |1 A2c ecA | dcd eAB :|2 Ace edc | d3 def ||
g2f gdB | GBd gag | eff fed | dcd fed |
eee age | age age |1 aaa aed | cAd AeA :|2 aaa edc | d3 d3 ||
The Famous Baravan
Someone recently requested this tune, composed by the late Gordon Duncan. This version is based partly on the playing of Anna Massie, and partly on the playing of Derek Hoy.
# Posted on January 2nd 2006 by nigelg
True sad story behind this tune
true sad story behind this tune, its good to play on the piano but a hard tune for the clarsach!
# Posted on May 13th 2006 by twinkle_toes_14
Happy Story in fact
In fact this tune is named after the good times Gordon Duncan and many others spent in the Scottish Gas Pipe Band's converted caravan (hence bar-a-van) in the 1990s. The band used to take the Baravan to pipe band competitions and there was a great social rapport between the Gas band and the Duncans' band, the Vale of Atholl during those years.
Although the Baravan has long since been retired, there is in fact a Bar-a-shed in existence now, built by the Baravan's owner, Findlay MacLeod.
# Posted on June 24th 2010 by markmckerrell