Re: Scots and Irish music.

The Highlander wrote:

Scotland and Ireland, sharing much of a common culture, are also not
above nicking (stealing) a good tune frion one another and I have sat
more than once smouldering gently while some smooth lying Irishman
introduces an adoring audience to "an ould Oirish tune" which just
happens to have been composed in Scotland and "borrowed" - but of the
course the audience is never going to hear those sordid details unless
you leap up shouting, "Yo! Song theft! Alert the media!"

My favourite song theft is 'Wild Mountain Thyme'. Anyone who thinks it was
the creation of the man who claimed it as original, has only to look at one
of Tannahill's pieces - 'The Braes O Balquhidder'.


I was taught to use a scythe
as a child, so I do have at least one antique skill! It is a fine art
on a summer afternoon, the swinging scythe hissing back and forth in
the long grass or corn, which falls in perfect fans. I last used a
scythe to cut grass in 1969 - 37 years ago. Sic transit gloria.

I haven't used a scythe in 3 or 4 years. I'm glad I know how, but I'm also
glad I don't really _have_ to do it! It's hard work.

Sheila
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