STAUMC Club Song Book

1970s Song Book of the St Andrews

University Mountaineering Club

 

 

THE STAUMC has been an active mountaineering club since 1934. It has a current website here. It also has a facebook page.

I think it's fair to say that the STAUMC has a reputable tradition in the annals of Scottish Mountaineering, and indeed Polar mountaineering. There was a sort of cycle to the club year, with highlights including the Feich Trip at Hogmanay, originally in Glen Nevis, but then for many years at Glen Pean; the Easter Meet in the North-West, sometimes with a club dinner; and then the early June meet in Glen Brittle.

The social aspect of the club was a way of relaxing and balancing the serious intent of the climbing, and sometimes letting off steam. The club had a 7-metre long tent called 'The Nally' where people would crowd in on stormy nights. Music was a part of the club's tradition: a song book was put together, and guitars and accordians would be carried to remote bothies.

The STAUMC has evolved over the decades, each new generation bringing its own style and new adventures to the annals of this now 86-year-old club. There have also been a number of post-graduate clubs involving former STAUMC members, notably the Corriemulzie Club whose own history can be viewed here.

I am grateful to Ian Walton (Club President 1972-73) who worked out the guitar chords for all the songs in the Club Song Book, and from whose files the songs below have been reproduced with his kind permission. The first Club Song Book was put together in 1960. A second edition was compiled by Sarah Mason and Dave Gibson in 1970. The third edition in 1974 (from which the songs on this page have been reproduced) added songs collected by Jeanette Young, with group support from Helen Foord, Mary Gardner, Elspeth Good, John Cant, and Norman MacKenzie.

 

 

The Castle Tavern - STAUMC's mid-week HQ back in the day

and scene of many evenings of drinking and singing (photo: Susannah Clark)

 

Blackrock Cottage - scene of an epic 'thrash' in 1974. The Glencoe Meet was a permanent fixture in late October.

 

The Cluanie Inn - scene of a particularly epic 1960s 'thrash' which went down in legend

 

STAUMC CLUB SONG BOOK (Second Edition, 1970)

Click on the Blue Song Book to view the 1970 Song Book - or click here

 

 

STAUMC CLUB SONG BOOK (Third Edition, 1974)

 

 

 

BALLAD OF BETHNAL GREEN

 

 

BANKS OF THE ROSES

 

 

THE BLACK VELVET BAND

 

 

BLOWING IN THE WIND

 

 

BONNIE DUNDEE

 

 

THE BONNIE LASS O' FYVIE

 

 

CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER WHERE I'M BOUND

 

 

CAMBELTOWN LOCH

 

 

 

CHINA. MY OLD CHINA

 

 

THE CLIMBER'S CLEMENTINE

 

 

CLOGGY

 

 

COME LANDLORD

 

 

CHRISTIAN BONINGTON

 

 

THE CRINAN CANAL

 

 

THE CUILLIN RIDGE

 

 

DARK ISLAND

 

 

DEERSTALKER HAT

 

 

FIDDLER'S GREEN

 

 

FLOWER OF SCOTLAND

 

 

FOUR POUNDS A DAY

 

 

FOUR STRONG WINDS

 

 

GIPSY ROVER

 

 

GODIVA WAS A LADY

 

 

GREENLAND

 

 

HIKING SONG

 

 

HOLY GROUND

 

 

I'M A ROVER

 

 

IRISH ROVER

 

 

THE JEELY PIECE SONG

 

 

JOHNNY LAD

 

 

THE JUG OF PUNCH

 

 

KILLIECRANKIE

 

 

LAST THING ON MY MIND

 

 

LEWIS BRIDAL SONG

 

 

THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL

 

 

LOGGER LOVE

 

 

MACPHERSON'S RANT

 

 

MANCHESTER RAMBLER

 

 

THE MEN OF KNOYDART

 

 

MINGULAY BOAT SONG

 

 

MUTILATED PHANTOM OF THE CRAG

 

 

THE NIGHTINGALE

 

 

THE NORTHERN LIGHTS

 

 

OUR FAMILY

 

 

PLUMBERS AND THE JOINERS

 

 

THE PUFFER SONG

 

 

MY RAMBLIN' BOY

 

 

RED RUBBER BALL

 

 

THE ROAD TO DUNDEE

 

 

THE ROAD TO THE ISLES

 

 

ROSIN THE BOW

 

 

SCOTS WHA HAE

 

 

SHOALS OF HERRING

 

 

SKI CLUB HATE SONG

 

 

SKYE BOAT SONG

 

 

SLOOP JOHN B

 

 

SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEERING CLUB SONG

 

 

STREETS OF LONDON

 

 

TAKE THE BOAT OVER TO SKYE

 

 

TAKE ME BACK

 

 

THE DIRTY OLD HIGHLAND CLIMBER

 

 

UIST TRAMPING SONG

 

 

WALTZING MATILDA

 

 

WEAVER'S SONG

 

 

WESTERING HOME

 

 

WHIP JAMBOREE

 

 

WHISKY IN THE JAR

 

 

WILD COLONIAL BOY

 

 

WILD ROVER

 

 

WILL YE GO LASSIE GO

 

 

WOAD

 

 

YE BANKS AND BRAES

 

 

YE JACOBITES

 

 

YOUNG RODDY M'CORLEY

 

 

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