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Description: | This is a favourite song and Northumbrian pipe tune. Tom Clough's version here has the usual differences of detail from Peacock, but most notably includes a strain which is not in Peacock but which is in the earlier David Young and John Smith versions; it appears here as the second half of strain two, where a repeat mark seems to have been omitted halfway through the sixteen bars.Part of the Smith version, almost certainly for fiddle, is reproduced in the Ormston-Say book, and as remarked there, this part of the tune (strain 3 in Smith), requiring the low D key, continued to be transmitted through the Clough family even though it is absent from intervening written versions. Although very similar to it, the version here is not the one reproduced in Ormston-Say, and in this writer's opinion it is superior to the published version in some places, especially the opening of strain 2. All versions of the tune differ more or less in detail (especially strain 2), but it is an exceptionally beautiful tune whichever setting you choose.The tune is taken from the Clough piping manuscripts. The Clough family are generally recognised as the most important tradition-bearers among Northumbrian smallpipers. For an authoritative account of the family's history and repertoire, readers are directed to the recently published book, The Clough Family of Newsham, Chris Ormston and Julia Say, Northumbrian Pipers' Society, 2000. ; Pipe manuscripts of Henry and Thomas Clough | Rights holder: | rights holder : Clough Family | Temporal: | start=1901;end=1940; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:C0100002 | Go to resource |
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