ISBN 9781857201857. 5.75x8.25x0.165 inches.
With this beautifully produced and comprehensive 4-volume collection of Scottish songs and ballads, Waltons have expanded their great collections. Each book contains 50 enduring favourites and modern classics from the great Scottish song tradition. From the tragic and celebratory historic ballads to the great poetic love songs and bawdy comic turns, the turbulent political, personal and social history of Scotland can be traced in the great songs and ballads of these wonderful collections. Each book includes charming illustrations and photographs depicting scenes and figures from Scotland's past, as well as a helpful glossary. Includes: Wi' a Hundred Pipers * The Rose of Allandale * Neil Gow's Farewell to Whisky * Came Ye by Atholl? * Jenny Dang the Weaver * I Ainst Loved a Lass * Peggy Ramsey * Isle of My Heart * The Shuttle Rins * Charlie Is My Darling * The Massacre of Glencoe * Meet Me on the Gowan Lea * The Flowers of the Forest * My Donald * Tatties an' Herrin' * and more. |
