Nursery Rhymes, Folk Tunes, and Common Melodies: Volume 1

The Piper's Cove Presents: Nursery Rhymes, Folk Tunes, and Common Melodies for the Great Highland Bagpipes, Volume 1 by Colin Nisbet

It's time to stop playing the bagpipes at your audience and start playing for them. If they don't know the music you are playing, you're not connecting with them, and it can end up seeming like really loud elevator music. Bagpipes are powerful, but without familiar tunes, even your best performance risks turning into background noise.

This vibrant collection reimagines over 55 beloved melodies for the Great Highland Bagpipes—because music should be a dialogue, not a monologue. From The Itsy-Bitsy Spider to Old Man River, and favorites like I've Been Working on the Railroad, these arrangements invite laughter, nostalgia, and genuine engagement.

Whether you're performing at parades, festivals, classrooms, family gatherings, or community events, you'll find music that evokes nostalgia, joy, and cultural storytelling—all tailored to fit the power and nuance of the bagpipes.

Play tunes they know. Share a moment they will remember forever.

Nursery Rhymes

Alphabet Song

Bingo

Do Your Ears Hang Low

Farmer in the Dell

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

American Folk Tunes

99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall

I’ve Been Working on the Railroad

Oh! Susanna

On Top of Old Smokey

She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain

Simple Gifts

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

This Little Light of Mine

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

When The Saints Go Marching In

Common Melodies

Give My Regards to Broadway

Ol' Man River

Taps

And Many More