Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on December 28th 2007 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 31 tunebooks.
Also known as The Massacre Of Glencoe.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Cruel Is The Snow That Sweeps Glencoe
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmaj
f3 e d2|A4 A2|B G3 B2|A4 A2|f3 e d2|d4 d2|
c (e e2 e2|e4) A2|f3 e d2|A4 A2|B G3 B2|A4 A2|
B2 c2 d2|c2 d2 e2|e (d3 d2|d4) A2|d3 f d2|e2 g2 e2|
f a3 f2|d4 f2|e g3 e2|A4 g2|f a3 f2|e4 A2|
d3 d d2|e3 g e2|f a3 f2|d4 A2|B2 g2 f2|e2 d2 c2|e (d d4|d6) ||
Cruel Was The Snow That Swept Glencoe
The title I've used is the beginning of a song about the Glencoe Massacre in the Scottish Highlands in the late c17, perpetrated against members of the MacDonald clan who lived in that place. The song was often enough heard on recordings and in folk clubs some decades back. The tune stands on its own as a useful one for a waltz set and may well have a particular name that I do not happen to know.
# Posted on December 28th 2007 by nicholas
Cruel Is The Snow That Sweeps Glencoe
I think that's it, actually...
# Posted on December 28th 2007 by nicholas
Glencoe Massacre
The song is often called "The Glencoe Massacre", but the melody is actually based on an older 6/8 pipe march called "Colonel Robertson" which can be found here at http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5063
# Posted on December 29th 2007 by nigelg
Cruel Was The Snow That Swept Glencoe
Now that i think about it, the songs is as often called "The Massacre of Glencoe", the words of which were written in the 1960s by Jim McLean.
# Posted on December 29th 2007 by nigelg
Massacre
My lady is a Campbell and she objects to the emotive use of the word massacre in what her people consider to be a legitimate policing operation against a lawless bunch of trouble makers who were terrorizing her clan.
I find the language she and her people use strangely reminiscent of the language currently used about places like Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq. it does show that history is not always down to the winners. I guess The Legitimate Policing of Glencoe is a less catchy title.
Noel
# Posted on January 2nd 2008 by noelbats
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/glencoe/
# Posted on January 2nd 2008 by gian marco
The Massacre of Glencoe
Rescued duplication from forestfiddler, but in G this time:
X: 1
T: Ballad Of Glencoe
Z: forestfiddler
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
D2 | B4 AG | D4 D2 | E4 CE | D4 D2 |
B4 AG | D4 G2 | F2 A4 | A4 D2 |
B4 AG | D4 D2 | E2 C2 E2 | D4 D2 |
E2 C2 G2 | F2 D2 A2 | A6 | G4 ||
D2 | G2 B3 D | A2 C3 D | B2 D2 B2 | G4 G2 |
A2 C3 A | D4 D2 | B2 D3 B | A4
D2 | G2 B3 D | A2 C3 D | B2 D2 B2 | G4
D2 | E2 C2 G2 | F2 D2 A2 | A6 | G4 |]
# Posted on September 23rd 2009 by nigelg