Tour Scotland Video Whaling Song Auchtermuchty

Tour Scotland video of an old whaling song being sung at the Traditional Music Festival in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. Jock Duncan is one of Scotland’s great traditional singers. A farm worker from the North East, Jock Duncan is a singer of the muckle sangs and bothy ballads of his native Aberdeenshire.

Oh for Greenland we are bound,
To leave our homes behind,
With timbers firm and hearts so warm,
Oh we sail before the wind, the wind,
We sail before the wind.

A blowing breeze came from the south,
Oor sails all seemed asleep,
Oh three cheers more, we clear the shore,
We float upon the deep, the deep,
We float upon the deep.

We leave our sweethearts and our wives,
All weeping on the pier,
"Cheer up my dears we'll soon return,
Oh it's only half a year, a year,
It's only half a year."

With tarry dress we'll reach Stromness,
And there we'll go ashore,
With water,s less and landsmen scarce,
It's there we'll take on more, on more,
It's there we'll take on more.

When at last we reach the ice,
It's there we'll crowd all sail,
With boats we'll man with a very strong band,
For to pursue that whale, that whale,
For to pursue that whale.

Now dark and dreary grows the nights,
The stars begin to burn,
Oor valiant crew with hearts so true,
Full ship we do return, return,
Full ship we do return.

And when we're past the Orkney Isles,
The pilot boat draws near,
We see our sweethearts and our wives,
All waiting on the pier, the pier,
All waiting on the pier.

And when our ship is safely moored,
It's there we get ashore,
With plenty of brass and bonnie lass,
We'll mak yon taverns roar, roar, roar,
We'll make yon taverns roar.

We'll drink a toast to Greenland's frost,
And them we love sae dear,
But back again too it again,
We'll take a trip next year, next year,
We'll take a trip next year

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Tour Scotland Video Roving Ploughboy Auchtermuchty Festival

Tour Scotland video of Roving Ploughboy being sung at the Traditional Music Festival in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. Heather Haywood singing at the 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. There are many different versions of this song.

Come saddle tae me my auld grey mare.
Come saddle tae me my pony O.
An I'll tak the road and I’ll go far away.
After ma rovin ploughboy O

Chorus.
Ploughboy O, oh ploughboy, O.
I'll follow the rovin ploughboy O

Last night I lay on a fine feather bed.
Sheets and blankets sae cosy O.
This night I maun lie in a cauld barn shed.
Wrapped in the arms of my ploughboy O.

A champion ploughman, my Geordie O.
Cups and medals and prizes O.
On bonny Deveronside there are none to compare.
Wi my jolly rovin ploughboy O.

So fare ye weel tae auld Huntly toon.
Fare ye weel Drumdelgie O.
For noo I’m on the road and I’m gaun far away.
After ma rovin ploughboy O.

Last chorus.
Ploughboy O, oh ploughboy O.
I'll follow my rovin ploughboy O

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Tour Scotland Video Harvesting Oilseed Rape Perthshire August 15th

Tour Scotland travel of harvesting in rural Perthshire, Scotland. Harvesting of the oilseed crop is preceeded by dessication, spraying to kill the plant evenly, leaving it to dry, and then harvesting it. Quite windy today with long spells of sunshine followed by showers of rain. About Sandy Stevenson

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Tour Scotland Photographs Potato Field Perthshire August 15th

Tour Scotland photograph shot at lunchtime today of a potato field in rural Perthshire, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot at lunchtime today of a potato field in rural Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Rural Perthshire August 15th

Tour Scotland photograph shot at lunchtime today of harvesting in rural Perthshire, Scotland. Since it is reasonably dry today, farmers are taking the opportunity of harvesting their Oilseed Rape. Rapeseed, Brassica napus is also known as rape, oilseed rape, rapa, rappi, rapaseed, and in the case of one particular group of cultivars, canola.

Tour Scotland photograph shot at lunchtime today of harvesting in rural Perthshire, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot at lunchtime today of harvesting in rural Perthshire, Scotland.

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Perthshire is at the very heart of Scotland and one of the most popular regions for visitors, offering a variety of Highland and Lowland landscapes with some of the most scenic and accessible countryside for shorter walks as well as evidence of its rich history at every turn. Perthshire 40 Town and Country Walks features traditional tourist hubs, such as Pitlochry, Dunkeld and Killin, with its historical connections to the county, as well as countryside around Blairgowrie, Crieff and Aberfeldy, finishing up at the Fair City of Perth and nearby Kinross. Perthshire: 40 Town and Country Walks (Pocket Mountains).