Over the Top!: Fifty Bagpipe Tunes from the Great War 1914-1918

This is a collection of fifty bagpipe tunes written during or following the First World War. Many of these tunes were composed by pipers serving in the Scottish regiments of the British Army and commemorate the great battles and campaigns of the Western Front, such as Mons, the Somme, and Passchendaele. Some are very well known and played by pipers and pipe bands today, such as “Battle of the Somme” and “The Bloody Fields of Flanders”. Others have had less attention and have not been played much outside the regimental messes of the Scottish regiments. In this centenary year of the end of the Great War this collection is a fitting tribute to the pipers who served and died in the conflict. Jonathan Swan has been playing the bagpipes for twenty years and has an extensive collection of pipe tunes. Music scores created using Bagpipe Player software (Doug Wickstrom) CONTENTS 1/5th Seaforth Highlanders Welcome to France 8th Argyll’s Farewell to Basincourt 2nd Battalion Scots Guards Farewell to France 2nd Tyneside Scottish March to the Somme 12th Battalion Royal Scots on the Rhine 17th Royal Scots Crossing the Somme 23rd Royal Fusiliers Advance on Cambrai 51st Division’s Farewell The 90th’s Farewell to France Advancing on Wervicq Battle of the Somme Bloody Fields of Flanders Buzancy Delville Wood A Dirge to our Fallen Heroes Dugald MacColl’s Farewell to France Earl Haig of Bemerside Echoes of Flanders Farewell to the Creeks Festubert The Glasgow Highlanders at Cambrai The Highland Heroes of Mons King George V’s Welcome to France King George V’s Welcome to the Battlefield The Last Battle of Ypres London Scottish Advance to Messines Longueval Lord Kitchener of Khartoum Major Moir at Villevecque Men of Argyll Nurse Edith Cavell On the Road to Passchendaele Over the Top Pipe Major R. Meldrum’s Welcome to the Cameron Highlanders, 1914 Sandy Strafed the Germans Seven Heroes of Mouevres The Allies The Anzacs The Cellars of Authuille, 1915 The Iron Division The Long Road The Piper of Loos The Road to the Isles The Royal Scots Fusiliers Advance on Mons, 1914 The Royal Scots The Seaforth Highlanders’ March to the Battle of Loos The Shell that Shook the Billet The Taking of Beaumont Hamel The Unknown Warrior When the Boys Come Home Again