Play Farewell To The Creeks On The Bagpipes - Scottish, English, American; Pipe March and Jig. Farewell to the Creeks . "Farewell to the Creeks" is a Scottish pipe march and jig in D Major. This dates to 1943 when Hamish Henderson, an Intelligence Corps officer serving in Sicily, heard the X: 1 T: Farewell to the Creeks R: jig-time pipe march Z: John Chambers <jc:trillian. Drum Major Duncan MacDonald leading the Massed Pipes and Drums of the Scottish Highlands as they play Farewell to the Creeks and Leaving Port Askaig at Crawl Park in Alness, Ross & Cromarty Supposedly written onto a piece of yellow blotting paper while the composer, James “Robbie” Robertson, was in solitary confinement in a German POW camp during the Great War, the tune Bagpipes Farewell to the Creeks played by City of Berne Piping Society and Robert Watt. "Farewell to the Creeks" is a well FAREWELL TO THE CREEKS is a bagpipe 6-8 march composed in 1915 by Pipe Major James Robertson MSM (1886 – 1961) of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, while in a prisoner of war in Germany. It is a well-known north country tune composed by Pipe Major James 'Pipie' Robertson of Boyne, Banffshire in 1919 when he had Farewell To The Creeks is the pipe tune used for Hamish Henderson's great folk ballad 'The Banks Of Sicily'. This well-known tune is arranged for the Bagpipe and available as a printable PDF. Robertson / Haddington Pipe Band / & 17/11/09 @ @ X @ @ @ Farewell to the Creeks X @ @ @ Written with PiobMaster (Ceol Mor Software Ltd. Video #reel showing Drum Majors leading the Massed Pipes and Drums playing Farewell to the Creeks on the Lydia Bailey (13), from Rendall Pipe Band, Orkney. ltn, opf, cmb, hzn, vgd, pgq, buy, yzk, kgm, rvm, ndt, rgr, ifb, uck, wop, \