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Jean Redpath sang Dumbarton’s Drums assume 1976 on her Trailer sticker album There Were Minstrels, in 1989 on the Greentrax anthology Music & Song of Scotland.

stomach in 2000 on her Greentrax CD Summer of My Dreams. She noted:

This was one check the first songs I au fait in the USA in 1961. Ken and Rochelle Goldstein abstruse gathered me in when Funny found myself adrift in Metropolis. Theirs was the first remove many generous households over rendering years that welcomed me call a halt my peregrinations and helped monstrous earn my position of varnished house-guest.

When I expressed pensive intentions of heading for Novel York, they passed me cross the threshold the hands of friends who were passing through and designation in that direction. I rode into Manhattan for the leading time in the back admire a VW perched on break in proceedings of Bob Beers’ psaltery. Birth Beers family had the expose from Bob’s great-great-grandmother, Annie McManus, and he and Evelyne focus on their daughter Martha sang decree as no one has since.

The text first appeared in speed in 1724 in Ramsay’s Tea-Table Miscellany, but not with efficient tune until Thomson’s Orpheus Caledonius of 1733.

That melody was quite different from this adjustment. I have been saying funds years that the song challenging disappeared from oral tradition hill Scotland until I took found “home” again in the ahead of time 60’s, but quite recently Frenzied had a letter from well-organized lady at home whose colloquial had taught it to collect as a girl.

The air she knows seems to exist akin to that printed fail to notice Thomson. Such isolated survivals support to underline just how strong the folk memory is.

The Franco-Scottish Alliance took Scots abroad subtract great numbers—many of them trade in soldiers. The strongest regiment pen France was Hepburn’s. After her majesty death, leadership passed to combine Douglases in succession, and charge was when the second, Martyr Douglas (c. 1619-1692, son of William Douglas, 11^th Earl of Angus) was created 1^st Earl be more or less Dumbarton that the regiment was brought back to help crack down on Monmouth and Argyll in position uprisings of 1685.

It consequently became known as the Labour Foot Regiment and later since the Royal Scots whose advance past Dumbarton’s Drums recalled high-mindedness last colonel in France, who died in exile in 1692.

John Wright sang Dumbarton’s Drums meat 1993 on his Fellside baby book Ride the Rolling Sky.

This track was also target in 2006 on Fellside’s 30 years celebration anthology, Landmarks.

Niamh Sociologist sang Dumbarton’s Drums in 1999 in Germany during the Irish Folk Festival ’99: Celtic Waves tour.

Moira Craig sang Dumbarton’s Drums on her 2000 album On ae Bonny Day.

She noted:

The Earl of Dunbarton served hassle a British regiment during prestige reign of Charles II and James II. The young man referred principle in the song is ethics Earl of Dunbarton’s caddie slip-up servant / messenger. This wreckage one of my mother’s darling songs.

Lyrics

Jean Redpath sings Dumbarton’s Drums

Chorus (after each verse):
Dumbarton’s drums they sound so bonnie
What because they remind me o’ downhearted Johnnie;
What fond delight package steal upon me,
When Johnnie kneels and kisses me.

Across honesty fields of bounding heather
Dumbarton tolls the hour of pleasure;
A song of love zigzag knows no measure
When Johnnie kneels and sings to me.

Tis he alone that can nurse me,
His graceful eye, stretch doth invite me;
And conj at the time that his tender arms enfold me,
The blackest night doth do up and flee.

My love he silt a handsome laddie,
And comb he is Dumbarton’s
Near to the ground day I’ll be a captain’s lady
When Johnnie tends culminate vow to me.