Mairi's Wedding

X: 1
T: Mairi's Wedding
T: Lewis Bridal Song
%C: Words: John Bannerman (1935)
O: Music: Trad Scotland (1909)
R: march
H: The well-known words for this song, and the Scottish Country Dance that goes
H: with it, were written for Mary McNiven, born in 1908, and still alive in 1998.
H: The lyrics were written by Johnny Bannerman for her birthday in 1935, in Gaelic.
H: Her wedding to Captain John Campbell was in 1941.  The tune itself is older.
H: It was published in Marjory Kennedy-Fraser's "Songs of the Hebrides" (1909).
Z: 1998 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C|
L: 1/4
K: D
f "A"\
[| "D"A>A AB | de f2 | "G"ed Bd | "A7"fe fa \
|  "D"A>A AB | de f2 | "G"ed BG | "A7"A2 A2 |]
"B1"\
[| "D"a>a ab | ag f2 | "G"ed Bd | "A7"fe f<a \
|  "D"a>a ab | ag f2 | "G"ed BG |1 "A7"A2 A2 :|2 "A"AB/c/ d/e/f/g/ |]
"B2"\
[| "D"a>a ab | ag f2 | "G"ed Bd | "A7"fe f<a \
|  "D"A>A AB | de fg | "G"a>f "A7"fe | "D"d2 z2 |]

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Contra/BIDA/0051
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Contra/march/LewisBridalSong/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/England/march/LewisBridalSong/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Scotland/march/LewisBridalSong/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/march/Lewis_Bridal_Song/0000