Sheila Chandra: Lament of Mc Crimmon, Song of the Banshee

Sheila s official video for this 1989, 90 release. It s a somewhat Indianized version of the song MacCrimmon s Below is background info and lyrics for the song: According to Hopekirk, this melody was composed in 1745 on the departure of Donald MacCrimmon by his sister. Another legend has it that Donald MacCrimmon had a premonition of his death and composed the tune the night before he died and that his sister later wrote the words. Donald MacCrimmon is said to have been killed in a skirmish in 1746 at the Rout of Moy during the last Jacobite Uprising. The MacCrimmons were famous pipers and the hereditary pipers of the Clan MacLeod. MacCRIMMON S LAMENT (with appreciation to mkm576) Doun Coullin s peaks the night is sailin The banshee crouns her note o wailin Bit my blue een wi sorrow are streamin For him that will never return MacCrimmon (Chorus) No more, no more, no more forever In war nor in peace shall return MacCrimmon Till daws the great day o doul an burnin Ma