Westering Home
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Westering Home is a 20th century Scottish song was written by Hugh S. Roberton
. It may be derived from the Irish Gaelic song Trasna na dTonnta
. It runs as follows:
Hugh S. Roberton
Sir Hugh S. Roberton was a Scottish composer and Britain`s leading choral-master.Roberton was born in Glasgow, where, in 1906, he founded the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. For five years before that it was the Toynbee Musical Association. A perfectionist, he expected the highest standards of performance...
. It may be derived from the Irish Gaelic song Trasna na dTonnta
Trasna na dTonnta
Trasna na dTonnta is a traditional Irish song often taught to primary school children. It is sung to the same tune as "Westering Home".The upbeat song is a narration of a rover who is returning to Ireland following his travels abroad....
. It runs as follows:
Westering home and a song in the air
Light in the eye and its goodbye to care
Laughter o' love and a welcoming there
Isle of my heart my own land
Tell me a tale of the Orient gay
Tell me of riches that come from CathayCathayCathay is the Anglicized version of "Catai" and an alternative name for China in English. It originates from the word Khitan, the name of a nomadic people who founded the Liao Dynasty which ruled much of Northern China from 907 to 1125, and who had a state of their own centered around today's...
Ah but it's grand to be waken at day
And find oneself nearer to IslayIslay-Prehistory:The earliest settlers on Islay were nomadic hunter-gatherers who arrived during the Mesolithic period after the retreat of the Pleistocene ice caps. In 1993 a flint arrowhead was found in a field near Bridgend dating from 10,800 BC, the earliest evidence of a human presence found so far...
Where are the folks like the folks of the west
Canty and couthy and kindly, our best
There I would hie me and there I would rest
At home with my own folks in Islay
Now I'm at home and at home I do lay
Dreaming of riches that come from Cathay
I'll hop a good ship and be on my way
And bring back my fortune to Islay