Tour Scotland Video Ay Waukin, O Festival Auchtermuchty Fife

Tour Scotland video of Ay Waukin, O being sung at the Traditional Music Festival in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. Alistair Ogilvy singing a song by Robert Burns at Muchty Festival, Alistair is originally from the Stirlingshire village of Strathblane, and is a fine traditional songster.

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Chorus
Ay waukin , O,
Waukin still and weary:
Sleep I can get nane
For thinking on my dearie.

Simmer's a pleasant time:
Flowers of every colour,
The water rins owre the heugh,
And I long for my true lover.

When I sleep I dream,
When I wauk I'm eerie,
Sleep I can get nane
For thinking on my dearie.

Lanely night comes on,
A' the lave are sleepin,
I think on my bonie lad,
And I bleer my een wi' greetin

Tour Scotland Video There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame Festival Auchtermuchty Fife

Tour Scotland video of There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame being sung at the Traditional Music Festival in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. Heather Haywood singing at Muchty Festival, she is best known for her interpretation of traditional songs, her repertoire is wide with the bulk of her material coming from the Scottish tradition.

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By yon castle wa' at the close of the day,
I heard a man sing, tho his head it was grey,
And as he was singing, the tears doon came,
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame !

The Church is in ruins, the State is in jars,
Delusion, oppressions, and murderous wars,
We dare na weel sayl but we ken wha's to blame
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame !

My seven braw sons for Jamie drew sword,
But now I greet round their green beds in the yerd;
It brak the sweet heart o my faithfu auld dame.
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame !

Now life is a burden that bows me down,
Sin I tint my bairns, and he tint his crown;
But till my last moments my words are the same.
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame !

Meaning of Scots words:
wa' means wall
greet means weep
yerd means kirkyard
sin I tint means as I lost
bairns means children

Robert Burns was born in 1757 so the passions of the Jacobite Uprising of 1745 and the wish by some to see the return of King James VIII were still very much in evidence during his lifetime. During his work collecting old Scottish songs, Burns came across the title of this song and created the words to go with it. "Jamie" is of course James VIII.

Tour Scotland Video Traditional Music Festival Auchtermuchty Fife

Tour Scotland video shot tonight of traditional Scottish music in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. An instrumental music session this evening in the Cycle Tavern, Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. One of the first events this weekend at the Auchtermuchty Music Festival.

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Tour Scotland Photographs The Thistle Chapel St Giles Cathedral Royal Mile Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of The Thistle Chapel in St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Thistle Chapel was designed by Robert Lorimer and finished in 1911. It contains stalls for the 16 knights, the Sovereign's stall and two Royal stalls. The chapel contains a wealth of detail, both religious and heraldic.

Tour Scotland photograph of The Thistle Chapel in St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of The Thistle Chapel in St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of The Thistle Chapel in St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Thistle Chapel is the chapel of The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Scotland's foremost Order of Chivalry. The chapel was built in 1911 to designs by Robert Lorimer, at the south-east corner of the church. It is a small, but exquisite, chapel with carved and painted fittings of extraordinary detail. The Order, which was founded by James VII in 1687, consists of the monarch and 16 knights. The knights are the personal appointment of the crown, and are normally Scots who have made a significant contribution to national or international affairs.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Red Haired Lass Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of a red haired lass under a brolly on the Royal Mile at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scotland also has a very high percentage with around 6% of the population having red hair. Previously it was estimated that red hair occurrence in Scotland was around 13%, which had been widely reported in reliable media sources. However, Dr. Jim Wilson of Britain's DNA study used a sample of 2,343 people, and found red hair occurrence of 6% in Scotland, with 35% overall carrying the gene and Edinburgh having the highest proportion of gene carriers at 40%. The largest ever study of hair colour in Scotland, which analysed over 500,000 people in 1907, found the percentage of Scots with red hair to be 5.3%. 38% of Welsh people carry the red haired gene. A 1956 study of hair colour among British army recruits found higher levels of red hair in Wales and the English Border counties.

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