“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”
—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
Less Wreckage – or how a song got its 4th version
#folksong #musicvideo #singersongwriter
https://muz4now.com/2025/less-wreckage-or-how-a-song-got-its-4th-version
(This isn’t to say that the song is an anachronism in a film set in 1932: “While Francis McPeake holds the copyright to the song, it is generally believed that rather than writing the song, he arranged an existing travelling folk version… Bob Dylan’s recording of the song cited it as traditional”. Anyway, as we know, music transcends time & space)
Listen to @ionafyfe sing Robert Tannahill’s “The Braes o Balquhidder” here:
One of the many great musical set pieces in the Oscar-winning movie SINNERS is “Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go” (aka “Wild Mountain Thyme”) – adapted in the 1940s by Francis McPeake from “The Braes o Balquhidder”, an original song by Robert Tannahill (1774–1810), Paisley’s “weaver poet”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xh5bhmU8X8
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #music #folksong #Sinners #Oscars
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