Annotation:Rebel War Song (The)

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REBEL WAR SONG (Eiridh Na Finnacha' Gaelach). AKA and see "Jacobite War Song (The)." Scottish, March (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Hunter (1979) remarks that the tune is a "well-known Gaelic song praising the Highland clans who joined in the rebellion." The melody was used as the vehicle for the song "Sound, Pibroch, Sound," published in songsters of the first half of the 19th century. In Cornelius Soule Cartée's song collection The Souvenier Minstrel: A Choice Collection of the Most Admired Songs (Philadephia, 1833) the music is attributed to "Turnbull", who may have been composer biography:John Turnbull. Curiously, the tune is unattributed in Manson's Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vol 1 (1844), which has a number of tunes clearly credited to John Turnbull.

Sound, Pibroch, sound! on each flame lighted scaur,
The red beacon waves its glad summons to war;
Too long has old Albin been bow'd to the yoke,
Too long ere the pride of the tartan awoke.
Dun Edin shall welcome her monarch again,
We have spurn'd at the Saxon and trampled the chain:
Burst forth in your wrath, and the fight shall be won,
Ere the echoes return to the roar of the gun.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 342. Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 1), 1844; p. 49.

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