Posted on 04/05/2002 3:06:47 PM PST by Coleus
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:05:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
March 30, 2002 -- Break out the haggis - the Scottish are coming!
Actor Sean Connery will lead a brigade of as many as 10,000 bagpipers through the streets of Midtown next weekend to celebrate Tartan Day.
Pipers from 30 countries, including Japan, Australia and Pakistan, are expected to fill the air with rich - and occasionally piercing - notes as organizers try to break the world record for assembling the most pipers in one place.
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Actor Sean Connery will lead a brigade of as many as 10,000 bagpipers through the streets of Midtown next weekend to celebrate Tartan Day.
Does this mean that this is taking place April 6 - tomorrow?
A. To get away from the sound.
Sean Connery and 10,000 other men in kilts, Riley. LOL
Q. Why are they called kilts?
A. Because someone is liable to get "kilt"if they call it a skirt.
I really have no idea why you flagged me to this. I find nothing appealing whatsoever in either of these.
I guess it's any day when you eat tarts, I like apple.
Clan MacLaren and the Scouting Connection
About Tartan Day
Famous American Scots
Scots in America
Tartan Day.org
Keeping alive the spirit of Braveheart
Tartan History
Haggis Anyone? It's Delicious, Try Some?
Scottish Council of The Boy Scouts Association
Tartan Day In America
Roundhill Highland 80th-annual games, to be held on June 28th, 2003 at Cranbury Park, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA.
Welcome To Pipers Cove, in Kearny, NJ 07032 USA
Tartan Day Drums Up Support
Tuning up for Tartan Day
In pictures: Tartan Day in New York
Bush pays tribute to the Scots
Scotsarts scene gets Tartan treatment
and here's our Hunting Blue...
Traditional
You may talk about your Lancers or your Irish Fusiliers
The Aberdeen Militia or the Queen's own Volunteers
Or any other regiment that's lying far awa'
Come give to me the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa
And strolling through the green fields on a summer day
Watching all the country girls working at the hay
I really was delighted and he stole my heart awa'
When I saw him in the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa
I never will forget the day his regiment marched past
The pipes they played a lively tune but my heart was aghast
He turned around and smiled farewell and then from far awa'
He waved to me the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa
And strolling through the green fields on a summer day
Watching all the country girls working at the hay
I really was delighted and he stole my heart awa'
When I saw him in the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa
Once again I heard the music of the pipers from afar
They tramped and tramped the weary men returning from the war
And as they nearer drew I brushed a woeful tear awa'
To see my bonnie laddie of the Gallant Forty Twa
And strolling through the green fields on a summer day
Watching all the country girls working at the hay
I really was delighted and he stole my heart awa'
When I saw him in the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa
I really was delighted and he stole my heart awa'
When I saw him in the tartan of the Gallant Forty Twa
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Foundress of the Sisters of Charity and first American-Born Saint
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