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 Theme code Index    13b7b7b 1H1H43b
 Also known as    Cogadh na Sith, Cigaudg na Sith, Peace or War, S' coma leam fhèin cogadh no sith, War or peace I care not which
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Pipe, Scottish
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    1 flat
 Mode    Aeolian (minor)
 Time signature    6/8
 History    
 Structure    One part
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Jane Morison
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Highland Airs and Quicksteps vol. 2
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 3, p. 2
 Year of publication/Date of MS    c. 1882
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
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COGAD/COGADH/CIGAUDG NA SITH (Peace or War/War or Peace). AKA - "S' coma leam fhèin cogadh no sith" (War or peace I care not which." Scottish, Pipe Air. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Played to inspire the troops by gallant Kenneth Mackay piper to the Grenedier Company of the 79th Regiment (Cameron Highlanders) at Waterloo, when he bravely stepped outside the protection of his comrades' traditional square formation (formed to receive the charge of the French cavalry), walking too and fro before the enemy. O'Neill (1913) relates its similar use in India, when a piper in Lork McLeod's regiment, seeing the British army giving way before superior numbers, played "War or Peace" which inspired the Highlanders with such spirit that they rallied and cut through their enemies. For this circumstance Sir Eyre Coote, filled with admiration, presented the regiment with fifty pounds to buy a stand of pipes. Still another military anecdote has pipers of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders playing the tune at St. Piere during the Peninsular War. The first lines of the song set to it go:

War or peace, peace or war, its all the same to me,
In war I might be killed, in peace I might be hanged!

Printed source: Morison (Highland Airs and Quicksteps, vol. 2), c. 1882; No. 3, p. 2. 

X:1
T:War or peace I care not which
T:S' coma leam fhèin cogadh no sith
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
N:"Slow"
S:Morison - Highland Airs and Quicksteps, vol. 2, No. 3 (c. 1882)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion             
K:Dmin
D | D>CD F>GA | c>dc c2c | dfd d>cA | G>AG F2F | 
f>ed d>cA | G>Ac d2C | F>GF FGA | {G}F>DC D2 ||
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