David Kilpatrick
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Fly to Australia Fly to Australia
You can sing this yourself to the tune of 'Waltzing Matilda'! This is a song for anyone whose roots lie a long way from home, or whose children and their families are on the other side of the world.
The Doo Doo Song The Doo Doo Song
A useful wee song for every pub band, weekend axe warrior or impromptu folk combo-nation. We do what we do do, what we do we do... sing along!
Hard Times Come Again No More Hard Times Come Again No More
A simple, deep and slow guitar and voice arrangement of this 19th century song of toil and oppression, with some of the most mournfully unconvincing poesy in its lyrics. It's hard to avoid dropping into bathos.
The Last Rays of Summer The Last Rays of Summer
Clouds move across a western sky in the last evening of summer. Sometimes the sky lightens briefly, and for a moment, the setting sun strikes out from the between the clouds, before the light fades again.
She Left Her Diary on the Bar She Left Her Diary on the Bar
From lines written by our daughter Ailsa when she was 16, in a poem called 'Lost Girl'; a story she wrote, and I turned into a song.
The Grey Mare's Tail The Grey Mare's Tail
A waltz - or a little quicker - on nylon string jazz guitar. A familiar tumbling cadence, like the Scottish Border waterfall it's named after.
Criminal Record Criminal Record
Where most of my songs are traditional, this is modern - almost grunge. There are no wasted words, just plain me and a guitar.
Chevy Chase '99 Chevy Chase '99
A Border ballad of modern times. They were always into thieving and violence round these parts, and little changes...
Matty Groves Matty Groves
A traditional English folk song performed in thrash dramatic fashion with the help of a heavy strung guitar tuned down to AEADF#B!
If I Could Love You More If I Could Love You More
A modern imitation of an 18th century complaint, with cittern accompaniment.
Si Beg Si Mor Si Beg Si Mor
Seonaid Wolf sent me a single verse written to fit O'Carolan's harp air Sheebeg and Sheemor (which can be spelled in many ways). She asked me to 'look after' the words for her and let others hear them.
The Border Pole The Border Pole
One per cent of the Scottish Borders population is now Polish, so this wee tune takes a sort of polka and a bit of Border and a bit of Scots to welcome them to a climate marginally not so bad as Poland
The Hen's Retreat from the Midden The Hen's Retreat from the Midden
Written on the death of our oldest hen, Dansak. Farmyard sounds on a little parlour guitar.
Rosemary Again Rosemary Again
A tune based on the traditional song 'Rosemary Lane', improvised on one of the Spanish Maple classical guitars sold by Troubadour.uk.com
The Wrang Road to Copshaw The Wrang Road to Copshaw
A silvery, delicate Scottish instrumental played on the tiny Tacoma Papoose alto guitar.
Another Great Day Another Great Day
This is an improvised instrumental intended for photographers who show pix to clients and need copyright free music as a quiet background
She Moved Through the Fair She Moved Through the Fair
Often reserved for the female voice (though clearly a 'male viewpoint narration' and originally performed by a male semi-classical Edwardian music hall star) my version of this Irish tale of marital desertion. With drone guitar, mountain dulcimer a
Green Sleeves (O'Neills Irish Double Jig) Green Sleeves (O'Neills Irish Double Jig)
This is a simple arrangement of Greensleeves using the double jig melody printed in O'Neills Dance Music of Ireland
Ghost in the Machine Ghost in the Machine
Here's one for all of us leaving our traces on Internet - wherever we may be. Listen carefully. This uses one of my little Troubadour Blondel cittern-guitars in DADGAD tuning as accompaniment.
A Slideways Glance A Slideways Glance
Some of the travel guitars I import and sell have such a high action I can't sell them - but then I discovered slide playing!
