Scotland the Brave

The tune is younger than most people think. The earliest printing found is in Keith Norman Macdonald's Gesto Collection of Highland Music, around 1895, where it is a trumpet march called "Brave Scotland" or "Scotland for Ever." Jack Campin found it in a Boys' Brigade pipe book from about 1911 as "Scotland, the Brave!!!"

The well known words came much later, written by Cliff Hanley in 1950 for a Glasgow stage show. The tune is used for a polka step in North West English morris dancing, and since 2006 it has been the regimental march of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.