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'Far, Far from Ypres'

2 CDs from UK Scotland

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Double CD of songs from the time of, and relating to, World War I.


The album has a more Scottish perspective than any of its predecessors, but when one considers that Scotland suffered the most soldiers killed (per head of population) of any nation that fought in the conflict, such an album is greatly overdue. It is also doubtful if the songs, poems and music of WW1 have ever before been covered in such depth.

This album is a tribute to all the soldiers from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales, and also their Commonwealth brothers in arms from all corners of the globe, who fought and suffered together in the Great War and, in particular, to all those who died.

CD1 consists of the soldiers' trench and marching songs, music hall favourites of the time, a Harry Lauder track, a pipe band track consisting of tunes associated with Scottish regiments, the poignant Flowers of The Forest and The Last Post.

CD2 comprises a pipe band track of tunes named after some of the major battles of WW1, songs written about WW1, or strongly connected with that war, by such songwriters as Judy Small, Alan Bell, Eric Bogle, Dick Gaughan, Jim Malcolm, and the late Davy Steele. Some of the writers perform their own songs on the album but there are also contributions from The Corries, The McCalmans, Malinky, Sheena Wellington and Karine Polwart, Steven Palmer, Robin Laing and Gaelic singer Donny MacLeod. The BBC Radio Scotland presenter Iain Anderson reads three poems.

CD ONE


1 Your King and Country Need You (Spoken Word - Iain Anderson)
2 Your King and Country Need You (Song - The Scottish Pal's Singers)
3 Regimental Tunes (The Army School of Piping and Highland Drumming)

Soldier's Trench Songs - The Scottish Pal's Singers
4 The Last Mile Home
5 It's a Long Way To Tipperary
6 Mademoiselle From Amenities
7 Fred Akron's Army
8 We're Here
9 Living in a Trench
10 Raining
11 Minor Worries
12 If The Sergeant Steals Your Rum
13 Oh! It's a Lovely War
14 Hush! Here Comes The Whizz-bang
15 Bombed Last Night
16 Gassed Last Night
17 Fritz Boy
18 Forward Joe Soap's Army
19 Pack Up Your Troubles
 20 Whiter Than Whitewash
21 Far, Far From Wipers I Long To Be
22 Take Me Back to Dear Old Blight
23 I'll Make a Man of You
24 I Wore a Tunic
25 Goodbye
26 When this Bloody War is Over
27 I Don't Want to be a Soldier
28 I Want to go Home
29 The Old Battalion
30 The Bells of Hell

The Music Hall Songs - The Scottish Pal's Singers
31 It's a Long Way to Tipperary
32 Keep The Home Fires Burning
33 Sister Suzie Sewing Shirts For Soldiers
34 The Only Girl in The World
35 Roses of Peccary (All The Scottish Pals Singers)
36 Keep Right on to The End of The Road (Harry Lauder)
37 The Flowers of The Forest (Corporal Neil McNaughton)
38 The Last Post (John Samson).

CD TWO
SONGS, POEMS & MUSIC ABOUT AND FROM WW1


1 The Bloody Fields of Flanders Set
(The Army School of Piping and Highland Drumming)
2 In Flanders Fields (Poem - Iain Anderson)
3 The Green Fields of France / No Man's Land (The Corries)
4 Jimmy's Gone Tae Flanders (Jim Malcolm)
5 Black is The Sun (Steve Palmer)
6 Mothers, Daughters, Wives (The McCalmans)
7 Geordie McCrae (Robin Laing)
8 And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle)
9 In Memorium (Poem - Iain Anderson)
10 An Eala Bhan (Roddy MacLeod)
11 Halloween (Sheena Wellington and Karine Polwart)
12 Why Old Men Cry (Dick Gaughan)
13 As If He Knows (Eric Bogle)
14 Jimmy Waddell / Battle of The Somme (Malinky)
15 Letters From Wilfred (Alan Bell)
16 Only Remembered (The McCalmans)
17 Cha Till MacCruemen (Poem - Iain Anderson)
MacCrimmon's Lament (Heather Heywood)
MacCrimmon's Sweeheart (Dougie Pincock).

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