This is a lament written in the late 1700's for the closing of the Whisky distilleries in Scotland. It may also be played as a slow air. The forbidding of distilling whisky was due to a national grain shortage at the time, but the ban was subsequently lifted. Whisky was required for births, weddings and funerals so Scots often buried stores for forthcoming ceremonies. There is a story in Glenlyon of a man who emigrated, forgetting his whisky. He wrote back saying where it was buried but they never found it, or so they claimed.
The tune is from the Hebrides Islands, off the north cost of Scotland. An alternate title Lewis Bridal Song refers to the Isle of Lewis, which may be its origin.
Our Outboard Motor Died But We Got Saved - G MajorReeli
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Tune Information
Author: Stephan Deibel
Origin: USA - Cambridge NY
This tune was written by Cambridge NY fiddler Stephan Deibel, around 2010 on a wilderness island in Blue Mountain Lake, NY. "While I was writing the tune, a boating party in a beautiful old wooden boat happened by. Suddenly, their outboard motor stopped and they were unable to restart it. There was a moment of tension as they drifted towards some sharp rocks, but they were saved just in time by another passing boater, and towed safely home. The first part of this tune seems to imitate the attempts to restart the motor, and the second part their joy at being saved, although this was not by conscious design."