Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 63 tunebooks.
Also known as The Flowres Of The Forrest.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Flowers Of The Forest, The
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmix
A3 A2B|A2d d3-|d2f g2f|
e2d B2d|d3- d2B|A3 A2B|
A2d d3-|d2g f3|e>fe d3-|
d3 c3|c2d B>cB|A3- A2f|
g2f e2d|B2d d3-|d2B A3|
A2B A2d|d3- d2g|
f3 e>fe|d3- d3|
The Flowers Of The Forest
This was a request.It's a lament,so it should be played slowly,not in waltz time.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
The Flowers of The Forest
It is indeed a lament. I first heard it played on the highland pipes at the state funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965. Whatever one may think of Churchill´s role in history, the occasion was an intensely solemn one and, with the lonesome sound of this lament, there wasn´t - as the saying goes - a dry eye in the house.
# Posted on April 16th 2004 by murfbox
The Flowers of the Forest
I first heard it played on the end of the track "Julie" on a Levellers album. Is its origin in Ireland or Scotland?
# Posted on April 17th 2004 by bassetrox
The Flowers Of The Forest
I believe that it's a traditionalScottish air.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
It's Scots, written about 15 years after Culloden by a couple of lowland ladies, I believe, but reputedly about the battle of Flodden, to confuse the english. There are words for this lament.
Can be found on"The Fate o' Charlie" on Trailer by Archie Fisher, Barbara Dickson, and John MacKinnon. Fairport used to do a nice version of it with electric dulcimer, too.
# Posted on April 23rd 2004 by Guernsey Pete
The Flowers Of The Forest
Hi!
I found a nice version of that tune in Mike Oldfield's "Voyager" album, but that version is a bit diffrent like you'r one.
Maybe Oldfield's ver. is variation over the original one. I've never heared orginal one.
Luck
Greg
# Posted on March 2nd 2005 by Tubular_bell
I think this is notated wrong and many other waltzes are done like this i.e. a recurring mistake. This is written out as if it were in 6/8 like a jig.
It would help slow it down if you wrote it out as a waltz in proper 3-time.
A6|A4 B2| etc (L:1/8)
# Posted on June 11th 2005 by Donough
Is this the tune played after the song, "No Man's Land"(or Green Fields of France", by June Tabor?
# Posted on February 5th 2008 by JosephofCK