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ETTRICK BANKS.
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ballad air of one strain, called Lord Ronald my Son. There is
another air called King James's March to Ireland, which has
evidently been founded on the same ballad air.
The pathos of Lochaber no More, when the song is well sung,
usually has a powerful effect on Scotchmen, especially if they be
at a distance from Scotland. There is a story constantly told
and believed, to the effect that it was necessary for the officers
of a Highland regiment in the West Indies to order the playing
of this air by the band to be discontinued, on account of its
fatal effect in creating home-sickness among the men.
ETTRICK BANKS.
All that is known of this delightful pastoral, and its air, is
that they were inserted in the Orpheus Caledonius, 1725.
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gloam - ing, when the sheep drave hame, I met my lass - ie
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My heart grew light, I ran, I flang My