Annotation:Rock on the Clyde (The)
X: 1 % T:Rock On The Clyde, The T:Brid Harper's [3] R:jig C:Bobby McLeod (1925-1991), Mull, Scotland Z:id:hn-jig-456 M:6/8 L:1/8 K:Em GEF G2A | B2e dB/c/d | edB AGA | BGE AFD | GEF G2A | B2e dBd | edB AGA | BGE E2F :| |: ~g3 fed | ~e3 dBA | ~G3 AGA | BGE EGE | DB,D GAc | BdB g2d | edB AGA | BGE E2F :|
ROCK ON THE CLYDE, THE. Scottish, Irish; Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The jig was composed c. 1950's by Scottish accordion player and bandleader Bobby MacLeod (1925-1991), and was popularized in Irish repertory by the playing of Belfast fiddler Sean Maguire.
The town of Dumbarton was known to the ancient Britons as Alcluith, the ‘rock on the Clyde’, and to the Scots in Dalriada, who spoke Gaelic, as Dun Breatann - 'the fort of the Britons'. It takes its name from a rocky outcrop on the Clyde that was once a fortress of the Britons of Strathclyde. The rock sits at the end of the River Leven which flows from Loch Lomond.
