Annotation:Faillte Scarba
X:1 T:Faillte Scarba T:Scarba, Salute M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air B:Finlay Dunn & George Farquhar Graham – “Celtic Melodies, Being a B:Collection of Original Slow Highland Airs, Pipe-Reels, and B:Cainntearachd, vol. 1” (Edinburgh, c. 1830, No. 66) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:F V:1 C|FFF d>cA|c>dc/B/ {B}AGF|{F}f>ed c>Ac/A/|TGFF G>AG/F/| F>GA A>GA|[FAc]>dc/B/ {B}AGF|{F}f>ed cfA|TGFF Gcd|| P:Chorus c>AG A2f|A>G A3 !fermata![FBd]|c>AG A2c|G2 ((3A/G/F/) F2d| c>AG A2f|AG A3 ((3c/d/e/)|fed cFA|TG2F [A,2C2F2]|| V:2 clef = bass z|F,3B,,3|F,3F,3|F,3 [A,2C2]F,|C,3C,3| F,3F,3|[F,3A,3C3] F,3|F,3 A,2F,|C,3C,3|| F,3F,3|F,>C, F,3B,,|F,,3F,3|C,2F,, F,2[F,,B,,D,]| F,3F,3|F,>C, F,3A,|DCB, A,3|C,3 F,2||
FAILLTE SCARBA (Scarba, Salute). Scottish, Air (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Dunn and Graham record:
Faillte Scarba is given in the Revd. Patrick McDonald's Collection, but in such a mutilated condition, that unless a person knew it before, they would hardly select if for a beauty. It is perfectly wild, as much so as Scarba itself. I noted it from the singing of a Highland Lady.
Scarba is an island, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, just north of the much larger island of Jura. Currently it is not permanently inhabited.
