{"id":168,"date":"2010-07-22T00:14:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T00:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.librairc.net\/wordpress\/?p=168"},"modified":"2010-07-22T00:14:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T00:14:26","slug":"a-scottish-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/a-scottish-soldier","title":{"rendered":"A Scottish Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Stewart and the pipes and drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"622\" height=\"444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SCSB_BiNSZo?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Scottish soldier&#8221; is a Scottish folk song. The lyrics were written by Andy Stewart. He said they came from his heart. The song is about a dying Scottish soldier, wishing to return to the hills of his homeland rather than die in Tyrol. The song was a significant international hit, and one of two US chart entries by Andy Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>The tune, &#8220;The Green Hills of Tyrol&#8221;, is a well-known melody in the Scottish bagpipe tradition and was written by John MacLeod during the Crimean War, and based on an alpine folk tune used in William Tell.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier<br \/>\nWho wandered far away and soldiered far away<br \/>\nThere was none bolder, with good broad shoulder<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s fought in many a fray, and fought and won.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d seen the glory and told the story<br \/>\nOf battles glorious and deeds victorious<br \/>\nBut now he&#8217;s sighing, his heart is crying<br \/>\nTo leave these green hills of Tyrol.<\/p>\n<p>Because those green hills are not highland hills<br \/>\nOr the island hills, they&#8217;re not my land&#8217;s hills<br \/>\nAnd fair as these green foreign hills may be<br \/>\nThey are not the hills of home.<\/p>\n<p>And now this soldier, this Scottish soldier<br \/>\nWho wandered far away and soldiered far away<br \/>\nSees leaves are falling and death is calling<br \/>\nAnd he will fade away, in that far land.<br \/>\nHe called his piper, his trusty piper<br \/>\nAnd bade him sound a lay&#8230; a pibroch sad to play<br \/>\nUpon a hillside, a Scottish hillside<br \/>\nNot on these green hills of Tyrol.<\/p>\n<p>Because those green hills are not highland hills<br \/>\nOr the island hills, they&#8217;re not my land&#8217;s hills<br \/>\nAnd fair as these green foreign hills may be<br \/>\nThey are not the hills of home.<\/p>\n<p>And so this soldier, this Scottish soldier<br \/>\nWill wander far no more and soldier far no more<br \/>\nAnd on a hillside, a Scottish hillside<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll see a piper play his soldier home.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d seen the glory, he&#8217;d told his story<br \/>\nOf battles glorious and deeds victorious<br \/>\nThe bugles cease now, he is at peace now<br \/>\nFar from those green hills of Tyrol.<\/p>\n<p>Because these green hills are not highland hills<br \/>\nOr the island hills, they&#8217;re not my land&#8217;s hills<br \/>\nAnd fair as these green foreign hills may be<br \/>\nThey are not the hills of home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Stewart and the pipes and drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. &#8220;A Scottish soldier&#8221; is a Scottish folk song. The lyrics were written by Andy Stewart. He said they came from his heart. The song is about a dying Scottish soldier, wishing to return to the hills of his homeland rather than die&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}