KING GEORGE V’s ARMY. AKA and see “Kitchener’s Army .” Scottish, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Composed by Pipe Major George S. McLennan (1884-1929) of the Gordon Highlanders, a renowned composer of pipe tunes, a skilled competitor, and a pipe-maker.
The title refers to the regular British army of World War I, of which McLennan was a member. The Gordon Highlanders’ pipe book explains: “Having heard [McLennan’s] composition ‘Kitchener’s Army’ which he composed in 1915 for the new volunteer army, the ‘old sweats’ asked him for a tune to commemorate their efforts up to that point in the war. GS
was having a nap on his bunk and heard the drummers practising a beating for the tune ‘East Neuk of Fife’ and he composed this tune, ‘King George V’s Army’ to suit the beating he heard.”
Thanks to the Mayor of Billy Row, Everard. his wife Apricot Lil and his sister Slack Alice. the sponsors for the ball:-
Window cleaner Peek a Boo Pete and the Postmaster Pop it in Pete. and thanks to the Billy Row Symphony Orchestra.
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