Farewell to the Creeks
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Farewell to the Creeks" is a Scottish pipe march and jig in D Major.<br> It is a well-known north country tune composed by Pipe Major James 'Pipie' Robertson of Boyne,<br> Banffshire in 1919 when he had rejoined the 1st Battalion after his experiences as a<br> prisoner of war from 1914-1918.<br> The title is based on the creeks and inlets of the<br> Banff-Portsoy coastline in Banffshire in north east Scotland where Robertson was born.<br> It is the tune for Hamish Henderson's popular song "The Highland Division's Farewell to<br> Sicily" also called "Banks of Sicily", composed while he was Intelligence Officer for the<br> Highland Division in World War II.<br> "Farewell To the Creeks" was printed in Hinds/Hebert's Grumbling Old Woman (1981). <br> It was recorded by Alistair Anderson on Traditional Tunes (1976), Will Atkinson (et al) on<br> Ranting and Reeling: Dance Music of the north of England (1998). <br>
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