Annotation:Awa' Whigs Awa'

AWA' WHIGS AWA'. Scottish, Slow Air (whole time). E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was played by a Highland piper in Claverhouse's army at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in an attempt to rally his fellow troops. 'In brave Highland style', as the story goes, he paraded along the banks of the Clyde until he finally fell in the river, mortally wounded, and drowned.

Printed Source: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs, vol. 3), 1788; No. 511, p. 196.