X: 0
T: The Isle of Skye
T: 8x32R3
O: RSCDS 10-7
B: RSCDS 10-7
B: Wilson's "Companion to the Ballroom" 1816
B: "Dances Of An Island Clan" #13
B: "101 Scottish Country Dances" #50
B: "Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams" v.6,7,8
N: The RSCDS list "The Isle of Skye" by Niel Gow as the recommended tune, but this
N: is a renamed and misattributed version of O'Carolan's "Planxty George Brabazon".
N: Later set to Hogg's song "Twa Bonnie Maidens"
R: reel
K:



X: 1
P: Planxty George Brabazon  (The Isle of Skye)
C: O'Carolan
B: O'Neill's 657
B: RSCDS 10-7 (in Bb) as "The Isle of Skye"
Z: 1997 by John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C|
L: 1/8
K: G
ge \
| "G"d2G2 (cB)AG | d2G2 (cB)AG | "Am"e2A2 (AB)cd | e2A2 "D7"(AB)cd |
y4 \
| "G"(ed)cB "(C)"g2fe | "G"(ed)cB "(C)"(cB)AG | "G"(BA)GE "D7"(DE)GA | "G"B2G2 G2 :|
|: (ga) \
| "G"b2(gb) "D"a2(fa) | "Em"g2(eg) "(C)"(ed)cB | "Am"e2A2 (AB)cd | e2A2 "D7"A2 (ga) |
y4 \
| "G"b2(gb) "D"a2(fa) | "Em"g2(eg) "(C)"(ed)cB | "Am"(cB)AG "D7"(DE)GA | "G"B2G2 G2 :|


X: 2
P: the Drunken Piper  (Highland Rory)
C: Alexander McLeod
B: RSDS-13
B: Scots Guards
Z: John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: Can also be accompanied by A major chords without changing the melody.
M: C|
L: 1/8
K: ADor
e2 \
| "Am"~A2AB e3f | edBd e2g2 | "G"~G2GB d3e | dBGB "E7"d2e2 |
| "Am"~A2AB e3f | edBd e2a2 | "G"~g2eg "(Em)"eged | "Am"B2A2 A2 :|
|: e2 \
|  "Am"a4 e2a2 | edef "(D7)"g2a2 | "G"~G2GB d3e | dBGB "E7"d2e2 |
|1 "Am"a4 e2a2 | edef "(D7)"g2a2 | "G"g2eg "(Em)"eged | "Am"B2A2 A2 :|
|2 "Am"~A2AB e3f | edBd e2a2 | "G"~g2eg "(Em)"eged | "Am"B2A2 A2 |]


X: 3
P: Fidget  [D]
R: reel
B: RSCDS 16-1(I) 1951
Z: 1997 by John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C|
L: 1/8
K: D
A \
| "D"d2d2 dcBA | d2d2 dcBA | d2d2 a2f2 | "A7"edef e2A2 |
| "D"d2d2 dcBA | "G"g2g2 gfed | "Em"B2B2 "A7"dcBc | "D"dcde d3 :|
|: d \
| "G"g2bg "D"f2af | "A7"edef "D"d3c | "Em"B2B2 "E7"e3d | "A7"cBcd e3f |
| "G"g2bg "D"f2af | "A7"edef "D"d3c | "Em"B2e2 "A7"dcBc | "D"dcde d3 :|