June 17, 2025

S 09 E 16 Waterloo Tunes part 1 Johnny Cope and the 71st Regiment of foot

1 hour 11 minutes

Tunes:

John Gow: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo

William Gunn: 71st Highlander’s quick step, Johnny Cope,

Robert Miller: Johny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning)

Thomas Glen: Johnny Cope,

Angus MacKay: Johnny Cope,

David Glen: Johnny Cope, DG setting for Johnny Cope,

O’Farrell: Johnny Cope,

Margaret Barry: Johnny Cope,

Patrick MacDonald: A Lament (I’m wounded),

Readings:

Thomas Pockocke,

Sergeant-Major Dickson,

Victor Hugo,

Sources:

Episode Cover Art: 'Anecdote of the bravery of the Scotch piper of the 71st Highland Regiment, at the Battle of Vimiero', 1808

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1971-02-33-533-12

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1817: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo (Eb)

https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27s_Repository_of_the_Dance_Music_of_Scotland_(Gow%2C_Niel)

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1848: 71st Highlander’s Quick Step From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

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1838: Johnny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning)

From Robert Miller Manuscript

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1843: Johnny Cope From Thomas Glen’s “A New and Complete Tutor for the Highland Bagpipe”

https://ceolsean.net/content/TGlen/TGlen_TOC.html

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1843: Johnny Cope From Angus MacKay’s The Piper’s Assistant

https://ceolsean.net/content/PipeAsst/PipeAsst_TOC.html

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1848: Johnny Cope From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

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1870s: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 2

https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html

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1880s?: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 6

https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html

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1810: Johnny Cope From O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion vol 3

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf

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2002: Johnny Cope from Margaret Barry:

https://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/johnnycopebarrynf.html

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1784: I’m Wounded (A Lament) from Patrick MacDonald’s Vocal Airs: (From Perthshire section)

https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=RA1-PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Written Accounts

Thomas Pococke Journal of a soldier of the 71st, or Glasgow regiment, Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 (Edinburgh: 1819). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039571487&seq=5

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Seargant Major Dickson, “The Greys at Waterloo: Reminiscences of the Last Survivor of the Famous Charge” Mackenzie MacBride Ed., With Napoleon at Waterloo and Other Unpublished Documents of the Waterloo and Peninsular Campaigns (Francis Griffiths, London: 1911).

https://archive.org/details/withnapoleonatwa00macbuoft/page/136/mode/2up

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Victor Hugo, “The Battle of Waterloo” Rossiter Johnson Ed. The Great Events by Famous Historians, (The National Alumni, 1905).

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41048/page/n389/mode/2up

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June 17, 2025

S 09 E 16 Waterloo Tunes part 1 Johnny Cope and the 71st Regiment of foot

1 hour 11 minutes

Tunes:

John Gow: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo

William Gunn: 71st Highlander’s quick step, Johnny Cope,

Robert Miller: Johny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning)

Thomas Glen: Johnny Cope,

Angus MacKay: Johnny Cope,

David Glen: Johnny Cope, DG setting for Johnny Cope,

O’Farrell: Johnny Cope,

Margaret Barry: Johnny Cope,

Patrick MacDonald: A Lament (I’m wounded),

Readings:

Thomas Pockocke,

Sergeant-Major Dickson,

Victor Hugo,

Sources:

Episode Cover Art: 'Anecdote of the bravery of the Scotch piper of the 71st Highland Regiment, at the Battle of Vimiero', 1808

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1971-02-33-533-12

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1817: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo (Eb)

https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27s_Repository_of_the_Dance_Music_of_Scotland_(Gow%2C_Niel)

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1848: 71st Highlander’s Quick Step From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

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1838: Johnny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning)

From Robert Miller Manuscript

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1843: Johnny Cope From Thomas Glen’s “A New and Complete Tutor for the Highland Bagpipe”

https://ceolsean.net/content/TGlen/TGlen_TOC.html

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1843: Johnny Cope From Angus MacKay’s The Piper’s Assistant

https://ceolsean.net/content/PipeAsst/PipeAsst_TOC.html

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1848: Johnny Cope From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

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1870s: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 2

https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html

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1880s?: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 6

https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html

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1810: Johnny Cope From O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion vol 3

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf

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2002: Johnny Cope from Margaret Barry:

https://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/johnnycopebarrynf.html

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1784: I’m Wounded (A Lament) from Patrick MacDonald’s Vocal Airs: (From Perthshire section)

https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=RA1-PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Written Accounts

Thomas Pococke Journal of a soldier of the 71st, or Glasgow regiment, Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 (Edinburgh: 1819). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039571487&seq=5

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https://archive.org/details/withnapoleonatwa00macbuoft/page/136/mode/2up

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Victor Hugo, “The Battle of Waterloo” Rossiter Johnson Ed. The Great Events by Famous Historians, (The National Alumni, 1905).

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41048/page/n389/mode/2up

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FIN

Here are some ways you can support the show:

You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag

You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes!

Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast!

Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: