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Workshop announcement! 📣 It's #BandcampFriday and my offering today is THREE themed monthly online Scots Song workshops. If you register TODAY, Bandcamp doesn't charge me platform fees. ↓

📍Songs of Robert Tannahill
📅 Thu 29 October 20:00 GMT
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📍St Andrew’s Day Workshop
📅 Mon 30 November 20:00 GMT
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📍Festive Scots Song Workshop
📅 Mon 21 December 20:00 GMT
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My Heart's in the Highlands is a 1789 song and poem by Robert Burns, sung to the tune of the Gaelic air "Fàilte na Miosg". A short dittie, it captures Burns love and longing for the Scottish highlands.

Recorded at the “Still” Art Sculpture near Ballindalloch, near Tamintoul, in the North East of Scotland. Designed by Scottish architects Angus Ritchie and Daniel Tyler.

My hairt’s in the Highlands, my heart isna here,
My hairt’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

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I have so many questions

Did this song inspire Dylan?

Happy Martinmas! Today's song is set about Martinmas time. Barbara Allen is considered the most widely collected ballad in the world.

A broadside ballad from the 17th century, it is Scottish by origin and has been also been collected in England, Ireland and in North America.
The earliest mention of the ballad is made by London-born member of parliament, Samuel Pepys in a diary entry on 2nd January 1666 detailing that a "Mrs Knipp" sang a "little Scotch song of Barbary Allen".

In 1740, Alan Ramsay published "Bonny Barbara Allen" in his Tea-Table Miscellany. Thomas Percy published two similar variants in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry published in 1765.

The ballad went on to be heavily published in literature, but also sung by several notable folksingers. Bob Dylan stated that "without Barbara Allen, there'd be no Girl From The North Country".

Download studio version → bit.ly/4iC6Lqu

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