On receiving a request from subscriber "Zippy Zuul " for this song, my first thoughts were, that I didn't realise there were lyrics other than rather rude ones we used to sing to the tune starting:| "Auntie Mary had a canary......etc"
On entering the title in the RU-vid search box, I found versions by The Alexander Brothers and Andy Stewart.
The lyrics were harder to find, and having found only one site for them there seemed to me to be a lot of errors in them, probably because the person who uploaded them had tried to transcribe the song by listening to Andy Stewart singing it, but did not understand his Scottish dialect.
I sought help from Mudcat.org and thanks to Mick Pearce (MCP), I now have what we think are the correct lyrics and it is these I am presenting here in my own interpretation based mainly on Andy Stewart's singing.
Feb 2022 My thanks to "xWHITExEAGLEx" who has just pointed out to me that it should not be "from Russia..." but should be "from Rosshire".
The chords I am using are the ones I play when we do this tune with our Friday night session music group in a set beginning with The Athol Highlanders, and followed by Cock o' the North.
15 сен 2024
