X: 1
T: Battle of the Somme
C: Pipe Major William Laurie
B: "Army Manual of Bagpipe Tunes and Drum Beatings. Music for Massed Pipes and Drums, Book 2" 1934
H:Dottes: William Laurie was Pipe Major of the 8th Argyllshire Battalion
H:+ of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1914.
H:+ Posted to France in 1915, he became ill in 1916 due to
H:+ trench conditions. Invalided to England, he died in
H:+ the Third Southern General Hospital in Oxford aged 35, one of
H:+ piping's greatest premature losses.
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
K: G
Q: 120
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"G" BdB G3 GFG | "D" AGE E3  D3 | "C" EGE D3 G3 | "D" BdB A3- Ad>c |
"G" BdB G3 GFG | "D" AGE E3  D3 | "C" EGE D3 B3 | "D" ABA G3- G   :|
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"G" GFG A3 D3  | "D" AGA BdB G3 | "G" GAB c3 D3 | "D" BdB A3- Ad>c |
"G" BdB G3 GFG | "D" AGE E3  D3 | "C" EGE D3 B3 | "D" ABA G3- G   :|