Originally Posted by
Detroitpete
WOW! That's all I can say gentleman. WOW!
What he said. I read the discussion with great interest, as a spectator to something very much beyond my ken. Thank you gentlemen!
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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