Home Sweet Home Schottische

X:23
T:Home Sweet Home Schottische
% NFF Book 2022
C:Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1787-1856)
S:collected from Arthur Foster, Killarney Vale, NSW
S:John Meredith collection, NLA Bib ID 645243
B:J Meredith, R Covell & P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p265
N:The tune was originally composed as a waltz by Henry Bishop in 1823.
H:"Collecting from Arthur Foster was akin to watching a magician pulling rabbits
H:out of a hat. Almost every other item was a surprise. When he announced 
H:'Home Sweet Home' I expected the usual mournful rendition, but instead he
H:played an arrangement that must have poor Sir Henry Bishop spinning in his grave.
H:'Home Sweet Home' arranged by bushman Alec Broadis as a lively schottische.
H:Never before had I realised that the old tune contained passages that sounded
H:like 'Waltzing' Matilda' and others like excerpts from 'The Drovers dream'".
H:John Meredith, FSA vol 2, p264
F:https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Home_Sweet_Home_(1)
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:G
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Home Sweet Home Schottische - played by Ray Mulligan

Additional Information

Additional information may be available on the following people or organisations associated with the collection of this tune:
| Arthur Foster | John Meredith Collection |