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.
This was written on October 2, 1984 by Judi Morningstar in White Lake, Michigan. The tune was named for St. Timothy’s Methodist Church, where her band Ruffwater Stringband played for over ten years, at a dance sponsored by the Detroit Country Dancers.