Tour Scotland video of MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band playing The Green Hills of Tyrol in the City Centre on visit to Dundee, Scotland. The tune, The Green Hills of Tyrol, is a well known melody in the Scottish bagpipe tradition and was transcribed by John MacLeod during the Crimean War from La Tua Danza Sì Leggiera, a chorus part in the third act of Gioachino Rossini's 1829 opera Guglielmo Tell, William Tell. Rossini adapted that tune from Alpine folk music. A Scottish Soldier is a Scottish folk song. The lyrics were written by Andy Stewart. The song is about a dying Scottish soldier, wishing to return to the hills of his homeland rather than die in Tyrol.
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