Tour Scotland Travel Video Scotland The Brave Bagpipes Music Mini Tattoo North Inch Park Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the music of Scotland The Brave being played on the bagpipes and by the massed bands at the Mini Tattoo and Perth Salute event in North Inch Park on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Scotland the Brave, Scottish Gaelic: Alba an Àigh, is a Scottish patriotic song. The earliest known version of the song appeared in 1911. The lyrics commonly used presently were written about 1950 by the Scottish journalist Cliff Hanley for the singer Robert Wilson as part of an arrangement by Marion McClurg. Scotland the Brave is also the authorised pipe band march of The British Columbia Dragoons of the Canadian Armed Forces, and also is played during the Pass in Review at Friday parades at The Citadel, and the Virginia Military Institute in in Lexington, Virginia, USA.

Hark when the night is falling
Hear! Hear the pipes are calling,
Loudly and proudly calling,
Down thro' the glen.
There where the hills are sleeping,
Now feel the blood a-leaping,
High as the spirits of the old Highland men.

Towering in gallant fame,
Scotland my mountain hame,
High may your proud standards gloriously wave,
Land of my high endeavour,
Land of the shining river,
Land of my heart for ever,
Scotland the brave.

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