12-string Guitar: Banks of Sicily
4,431 views · Published 15 July 2009 · 2:48 · Indexed 19 October 2026
Channel: threelegsoman · 2009 · Music
Banks of Sicily was written by Hamish Henderson in World War II, immediately after the end of a campaign, in Linguaglossa , a small village in Sicily near the volcano Etna. Hamish later said that "Banks o Sicily" was immediately taken up by Scots Troops, becoming in effect an honorary folksong, and when he returned to Scotland in 1946 the song was more well-known than he was! The song was also known by the name, "51st Highland Division's Farewell to Sicily."Hamish had borrowed the melody from "Farewell to the Creeks," by Pipe Major James Robertson, who had written the song about his uncle's farm near the Creeks in Portnockie on the Banffshire coast during World War I.
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