For what it's worth there is also another MacCRimmon song based on the same legendary Piper MacCRimmon but the Itma database of "Irish" (sic) songs gives a totally different song of that name with a different tune. Seldom heard now, my father recorded it on a 1967 album - not one of his own songs. I am unsure who wrote this one, seems in the 20th century idiom. Piper MacCrimmon The chorus goes something like. "Lilting pipes are echoing eerily - over mountain, valley, and glen. Piobaireachd sounding - restlessly, wearily. Piper MacCrimmon is haunting the glen". It's a Scots tenor type of thing - and not one any folk singer would go for, but it shows how the same Piper inspired songs and tunes.
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