Flowers of The Forest (Flooers o the Forest) - Scottish Bagpiper

Flowers of the Forest, or The Flooers o the Forest, is a Scottish folk tune commemorating the defeat of the Scottish army of James IV at the Battle of Flodden in September 1513. Although the original words are unknown, the melody was recorded c. 1615–1625 in the John Skene of Halyards Manuscript as “Flowres of the Forrest“, although it might have been composed earlier. The country has been in national mourning since Prince Philip’s death on April 9, with union flags flown at half-mast across the UK for more than a week. And as the Queen’s husband of 73 years was laid to rest in Windsor on Saturday, it was a Braemar piper who played the lament just yards from the flag-draped coffin, and the grieving widow. Pipe Major Colour Sergeant Peter Grant, of the 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 Scots), played Flooers o’ the Forest down the hall of the chapel, a role he was all-too-aware could fall upon him when he took up his post one year ago.