We love playing this tune, it makes up a set with The High Road to Gairloch. There is a trap early on as the start matches Scotland The Brave, so those pipers not paying attention can slip into a different tune altogether!<\/p>\n
The first two verses of this song are about soldiers of the 42nd Highland Regiment, the Black Watch, marching along the Broomielaw, which runs alongside the River Clyde in Glasgow. They are going to board a ship to travel abroad, maybe to fight in a war, but the song makes fun of how they are dressed. In Perth, the song marched them down the Thimbleraw.<\/p>\n
The third verse changes the song just a little to make fun of the Scottish city children who used to be sent to rural farming areas to work the land and lift the potatoes (tatties).<\/p>\n
Wha saw the 42nd, wha saw them gaun awa?
\nWha saw the 42nd merchin doon the Broomielaw?
\nSome o them had boots an stockins
\nSome o them had nane at aa
\nSome o them had tattie scones
\nFor tae keep the cauld awa.<\/p>\n
Wha saw the 42nd, wha saw them gaun awa?
\nWha saw the 42nd merchin doon the Broomielaw?
\nSome o them had tartan toories
\nSome o them had nane at aa
\nSome o them had green umbrellas
\nFor tae keep the rain awa.<\/p>\n
Wha saw the tattie howkers? Wha saw them gaun awa?
\nWha saw the tatttie howkers merchin doon the Broomielaw?
\nSome o them had boots an stockins
\nSome o them had nane at aa
\nSome o them had a wee drop whisky
\nFor tae keep the cauld awa<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The tune is also played as a pipe march with an old Jacobite lyric, which was collected or made by poet James Hogg.<\/p>\n
Wha wouldna fecht for Charlie,
\nWha wouldna draw the sword,
\nWha wouldna up and rally
\nAt the Royal Prince\u2019s word?<\/p>\n
Think on Scotia\u2019s ancient heroes,
\nThink on foreign foes repelled,
\nThink on glorious Bruce and Wallace,
\nWha the proud usurpers quelled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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