. . . muttered the ogre

If you’ve ever heard bagpipes, you’ve probably heard “Scotland the Brave”. One night I left a showing of The Seven Samurai, whistling the song of the peasants planting the rice; started to improvise on it, and soon found that it had mutated into “Scotland the Brave” but on the Japanese scale. Couldn’t do that again if you paid me!

Only once before tonight had I heard words sung to that tune, and somehow I suspected that “bring me my sheep / I’m so lonesome tonight” might not be quite right.

Well, anyway, just now this bloke John McDermott was on telly singing “Scotland the Brave”. But apparently the words are original with him, as Google finds them only at his site and at those of his fans. (I’d never have heard of him if it weren’t pledge season at KTEH, and he has multiple fan sites?)

The quest continues. Heck, if anyone knows the rest of the other version, I’ll take that. Hm, maybe it’s on one of Michael Longcor’s tapes?