What song stirs your highland blood?

**cavscout** · 14th December 07, 11:52 AM

I've got Highland Cathedral playing while here at the office. I like this arrangement so much I just put it on loop and let it run. Accompany this with the photo's provided by the our embers across the pond and I feel the fire rising to wander the highlands, pick a fight, and enjoy a tall brew.

Other than Amazing Grace, what song on the pipes rouses your spirit to "look to the highlands"?

**CactusJack** · 14th December 07, 12:05 PM

I don't know if this will qaulify but at my father in laws funeral the piper played a song that my wife and I both recognized right away, It was There Is A Ship and now when ever I hear it I can't help but think of it being played on the pipes The Marine Corp Hymn is another on of my favorites.

**Colin** · 14th December 07, 12:09 PM

I'm pretty partial to Skye Boat song, but the Corries version of Flower of Scotland is also a favourite.

It's hard to pick any pipe songs that don't rouse the spirit.

**Yaish** · 14th December 07, 12:11 PM

A little out of genre, but the song "March of the Cambreadth" by Heather Alexander gets me going.

http://www.heatherlands.com/mpaudio/...Cambreadth.mp3

**McMurdo** · 14th December 07, 12:16 PM

Skye boat song, gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

**thatcelticband** · 14th December 07, 12:20 PM

Dougie MacLeans Calidonia. Dang near to tears

**Cawdorian** · 14th December 07, 12:24 PM

Scotland the Brave is number one, Amazing Grace is a close second.

**Livingston** · 14th December 07, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Cawdorian

Scotland the Brave in number one, Amazing Grace is a close second.

Depending on the day, I would agree. Amazing Grace when started by one piper in the dark with a spotlight on him and then the rest of the massed bands joining in follow by the USMC 29 Palms band...just can't beat that.

**CactusJack** · 14th December 07, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by Livingston

Depending on the day, I would agree. Amazing Grace when started by one piper in the dark with a spotlight on him and then the rest of the massed bands joining in follow by the USMC 29 Palms band...just can't beat that.

That just gave me goosebump reading it..

**gilmore** · 14th December 07, 12:49 PM

There are so many. "Green Hills of Tyrol," perhaps. And "Bonnie Dundee," "Westering Home," "Bluebells of Scotland," "The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie." I have a CD on which the Simon Frasier University Pipe Band plays Pachelbel's "Canon" that almost works.