Bagpipe songs for clans

[BC3...@swt.edu]

Anybody here know if there is a particluar bagpipe song for the
MacFarlane Clan? If so, do you have the music?
Thanks for anyone's help.

Brad

[Maighread Stiubhart]

Hi Brad,

Yes, indeed, there is a very famous pibroch song for the Clan MacFarlane.
Their gathering tune 'Thogail Nam Bo". The pibroch is known by two names,
the popular one for competition being 'Too Long In This Condition' and
another variation is known as 'MacFarlane's Gathering'. I find that the
variation 'MacFarlane's Gathering is much closer to the song version than
the 'Too Long variation, but some sources say that this variation was passed
down from the fiddle tradtion (a violin pibroch) and that it may not be an
authentic pibroch. The song certainly has the structure of 'pibroch song'.
The music for both variations can be found in the Piob. Soc. books.

The words to the song are as follows:-

Thogail nam bo, thogail nam bo, thogail nam bo theid sinn,
Thogail nam bo, ri uisge 's ri ceo,
Ri monadh Ghlinn-cro theid sinn;

Thogail nan creach, bhualadh nan speach,
Thogail nan creach theid sinn,

Thogail nam bo, ri uisge 's ri ceo,
Ri monadh Glinn-cro thied sinn;

Thogail nan creach, thogail nan creach,
thogail nan creach theid sinn

Thogail nan creach, bhualadh nan speach,
Thogail nan creach theid sinn.

Togail nam bo an aird ris na bealaichean
Togail nam bo an aird ris an aonach
Togail nam bo an aird ris na bealaichean
Caogad chruidh bhallaich is balaich 'gan saodach.

Regards
Maighread Stiubhart (Margaret Stewart)

[Henry Whyte]

In message <6759fe$9jv$1...@central.server.swt.edu>, BC3...@swt.edu writes

>Anybody here know if there is a particluar bagpipe song for the
>MacFarlane Clan? If so, do you have the music?
>Thanks for anyone's help.

The only MacFarlane song I've heard is a "bothy ballad", i.e. a rural
song that probably started out as a ploughboy's list of complaints. It
doesn't sound like one for a clan party!

(All spelling is phonetic)

"I dinna like MacFarlane
It's safe enough tae state.
His lug wid cast a shadda
Ower a sax-fit gate.
He's daft as ony starlin'
An' sliddery as a skate -
MacFarlane o' the Sprots o' Burnieboozie".

There are more verses, but that's all I remember: I haven't heard it or
seen the words since Ike was on the throne.
--
Henry Whyte, Lochee hwh...@translation-plus.co.uk