Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on March 19th 2007 by gaitazampogna_32.
This tune has been added to 33 tunebooks.
Also known as The Boy's Lament For His Dragon, Farewell To Aberdeen.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: 72nd's Farewell To Aberdeen
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Cmaj
|: e|{g}A{Gdc}d{gdc}d{g}e3/4f/4|g3/4f/4{g}e3/4d/4{g}f2|{gf}gB{GdGe}B{g}c3/4d/4| {g}e3/4f/4{g}e3/4c/4{g}A2|
{g}A{Gdc}d{gdc}d{g}e3/4f/4|g3/4f/4{g}e3/4d/4{g}f2| {gf}gB/4{G}B3/4{g}f3/4e/4{g}d3/4c/4|{Gdc}d2{gdc}d:|
|:{gf}g| {ag}aA{GdGe}A{d}c|{gBd}B{e}G{g}A2|{g}A{Gdc}d{g}A{Gdc}d| {g}e3/4d/4{gcd}c3/4B/4{g}A{gf}g|
{ag}aA{GdGe}A{d}c|{gBd}B{e}G{g}A2| {g}A{Gdc}d{g}f3/4e/4{g}d3/4c/4|{Gdc}d2{gdc}d:|
72nd's Farewell to Aberdeen
The transcription hear looks as if it is straight out of a pipe book. Hence the key signature of C major. It is, in fact, in D major. For non pipers a more sensible setting would be:
X: 1
T: The Boy’s Lament For His Dragon
C: William Mackay
O: Scottish
M: C|
L: 1/8
Q: 1/2=76
R: march
K: D
A<B|A2d2 d2(ef)|g>f e<d f4|(g2B2) B2(cd)|e>f e<c A2A<B|
(A2d2) d2(ef)|g>f e<d f4|(g2B2) f>e d<c|d4 d2:|
f<g|a2A2 A2((3AB=c)|B2G2 A2A<B|(A2d2) A2d2|e>d c<B A2f<g|
a2A2 A2((3AB=c)|B2G2 A2A<B|(A2d2) f>e d<c|d4 d2:|
There is a stonking version of this by Brenda Stubbert on her CD "Some Tasty Tunes".
As the abc indicates, the composer was one William MacKay.
# Posted on March 20th 2007 by DonaldK
Perhaps more commonly known as "The boy's lament for his dragon"
# Posted on April 6th 2007 by crunluath
72nd's Farewell to Aberdeen
It was apparently given the "Dragon" title by its composer, so I don't know why or when the alternative "72nd" title became attached. I was told that the title refers to a kite - you can just imagine a young boy howling because his kite was stuck in a tree! I was also told that in German, the word for dragon ("Drachen") is also used as the word for a kite. Mmm.
# Posted on April 6th 2007 by nigelg
Nice tune we played it at Whitby this year more as an air
# Posted on August 31st 2010 by Michael Sam Wild
Midi file
Sounds from above comments that it should be a decent tune but the midi file is a horrid noise. Shame I don't read dots.
# Posted on January 1st 2012 by kayeselle
It's a fine tune. They reason it sounds crap is that the person who posted it should have posted it in the key of "D" major, and not "C", as DonaldK points out above. The "C" and "F" notes should be played as sharps. I could send you an MP3 file of it, if you contact me with an email address through a private message.
# Posted on January 1st 2012 by Kenny