MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN - Uke Improvisation

3,889 views · Published 16 March 2015 · 2:56 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: Ken Middleton · 2015 · Music

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Instead of playing this song in the regular triple time, I decided to play it in duple time, as a lively jig. just an improvisation at the moment.

It is a traditional Scottish folk song about Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie), who was exiled after the battle of Culloden in 1746. His supporters could pretend they were singing a conventional love song.

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