# The Pibroch

- Music: Charles Villiers Stanford (died 1924)
- Words: Murdoch Maclean
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6548253

## The words

The pibroch, man, the pibroch!  
Upon the north wind be- neath the list’ning  
sky? A thousand voices rise to cheer it,  
As proud the kilted Highlanders go by.  
There’s breath of moor and ben in it,  
And sough of Highland glen in it,  
There’s battle’s roar by sea and shore And  
tramp of marching men in it.  
There’s rune of ancient pride in it,  
And dirge of men who died in it, There’s daring  
bold of heroes old, And strength that kings  
de- fied in it.  
There’s feud of blood and hate in it,  
And vengeance crying yet in it,  
There’s rousing song of woe and wrong That we  
may ne’er forget in it.  
There’s note of haunting fears in it,  
And mist of parting tears in it,  
There’s grief forlorn in anguish borne Adown  
the fleeting years in it.  
There’s dash of sea and foam in it,  
There’s sigh of sons who roam in it,  
There’s blending strain of love and pain That  
calls the wand’rer home in it.  
The pibroch, man, the pibroch,  
The pibroch, hear it calling Afar amid the  
solitudes we know.  
The silver dews of night are softly falling,  
The stars are on the heather —  
let us go.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).