Tag: Alasdair mac Cholla

The Rock and the Wee Pickle Tow as it appears in the Scots Guards collection, volume 1.

A new date for an old melody – A Rock and a Wee Pickle Tow

By Seán Donnelly A Rock and Wee Pickle Tow (or The Linlithgow March) is a tune that needs no introduction. Like Cock o’ the North, a descendant of Joan’s Placket is Torn, first published in 1685 but referred to from the 1660s onward, A Rock and a Wee Pickle Tow […]