Ty is known to very few people that four songs that are accepted genuinely Scottish were written by an Englishman—Sir Herald Boulton, who is still living and more active than making ever lyrics for Scottish soirees.
Tt was he who wrote "Over Sea to Skye." R. L, Stevenson was the author of a subsequent set of verses to the seme tune, but not nearly so good, and Boulton's ver: far the more popular.
Morven" was written by the came hand, though published as "The Lament of an Ossianie hero for; the death of his Lady-love accidently lost in a storm off the Point of Ardnamurchan." It has whey called a "Traditional melody" arranged by Robert Macleod. The Poem and ite melody will net in-Pose for a moment on anyone who knowns anything about Highland folk song, but rong in a kilt "The Maiden of Morven" sounds, to most people, as ancient as Balelutho. "The Lament for Macleod of Ard-sour," was also written by Sir Har. eld, ostensibly to "an Old Melody preserved in the Ardgour district," and arranged by Malcolm Lawson. Quite 2 good lyric, and quite 2 good air, but the district of Ardgour never heard of it till the first volume of the "Songs of the North" came out. Sir Harold Boulton's fourth contribution to popular Seottish minstrelsy ig "Bonnie Strably antique than the others mentioned, He has a real gift for picking up and assimilating the more superficial characteristics of "'national" song. It was he who wrote the popular ver~ sion of "All Through the Night" for Wales, and "The Gentle Maiden" for Ireland.
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