Burning Sands of Egypt (The)

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Theme code Index	3H5H 1H5 61H 2H2H
Also known as	Bens of Jura, Highland Bridge's March to Heil, Paps of Jura, Road to the Isles
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	March/Marche
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AABB'
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title	Book:8th (The Argyllshire) Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: A Collection of Pipe Tunes
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS	1933
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BURNING SANDS OF EGYPT, THE. Scottish, Pipe March. Composed by John MacLellan, D.C.M., a poet and painter from Dunoon, who was formerly Pipe-Major for the 8th Battalion, Argyl and Sutherland Highlanders during World War I. The tune is now better known, rather banally, as "The Road to the Isles."

X: 1
T:The Bens of Jura
C:John McLellan
B:8th (The Argyllshire) Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: A
B:Collection of Pipe Tunes (Paterson's Publications Limited, July 1933)
M:2/4
L:1/16
F:http://jc.tzo.net/~jc/music/abc/mirror/www.terra.es/personal8/niltoni/t.abc	 
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