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Margaret Johnstone Gray –
youngest sister of the late composer and Pipe Major George
Johnstone of Eochdar, South Uist – provides the following story
of the tune. “A
young George coming home on leave disembarked from the Lochmor
at Lochboisdale with this tune on pieces of paper in his pocket.
H met up with Adam Scott and, after many drams at the
Lochboisdale Hotel, handed over this then nameless tune. To his
credit Adam was the first person to play this tune in public and
I believe won a medal at the South Uist games. He was then given
permission by George to name the tune. My sisters Mary Margaret
Johnstone Davies (Shropshire) and Janet Johnstone LoVecchio
(Brooklyn New York) both accomplished pipers and I have always
known this. Shortly afterwards, George met Peggy MacKay my
lovely sister in law. Had this happened earlier, this tune would
have had a very different name. George Johnstone composed this
brilliant tune, Adam Scott named it.”
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