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Image	Title	Item Description
JSS0785	Farewell to Gairloch	This song not only has words written by Skinner's good friend G G Ingram, it is also arranged by him. The piano plays the melody line, which supports the singer.
JSS0786	Page 1 of 2, The Forty Twa	There are a few instances in his letters, of Skinner writing lines of poetry. Here, he has written the words as well as the melody for The Forty-Twa, a music-hall type of song.
JSS0787	Page 2 of 2, The Forty Twa	There are a few instances in his letters, of Skinner writing lines of poetry. Here, he has written the words as well as the melody for The Forty-Twa, a music-hall type of song.
JSS0788	The Creaking Door (or 'The Author's Worry')	This song with words by Gramin (G G Ingram), manages to praise Skinner's music in the third line!
JSS0789	Tonal Mackinlay	Tonal Mackinlay is rather similar in sentiment to Talisker Whisky (JSS760-63). This too is a humorous poem, only instead of merely praising whisky, it praises a piper. Note how the singer is expected to provide a bagpipe-like nasal accompaniment in the last line! The dedicatee, W F Frame, was a music-hall entertainer and a good friend of Skinner's. Tonal Mackinlay was probably written for him to perform.
JSS0790	Wee Jamie	This little tribute was written and composed by Skinner to commemorate the death of his little friend, James Scott Ingram. 'Wee Jamie's' father, was 'Gramin', a great friend of Skinner's, who wrote many verses to go with Skinner's music.
JSS0791	Where The Roses Blush and Bloom.	Skinner notes that this song may be adapted as a German Schottische. The German Schottische differed slightly to the Highland Schottische, being a simpler version of the same dance. The Schottische was not developed in Scotland until the 1850s.
JSS0792	The Flower o' Strathbogie	This humorous little song has words by Gramin. The dedicatee, Jeanie Ingram, may even have been one of his three daughters. A few months after the Logie Collection was published, Gramin emigrated to St Paul, Minnesota.
JSS0793	The Warrior's Return	The Warrior's Return is dedicated to General Francis Joseph Pierre Finart D' Lenglee. His daughter married Skinner's brother, Sandy.
JSS0794	Good Bye Gramin	By the time he composed this melody, Skinner would have known about his friend, Gramin's plans to emigrate to Minnesota in the United States of America. Gramin emigrated early in 1889. Click on the audio link below to hear Skinner playing this air.

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