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The Crags of Tumbledown Mountain sheet music

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The Crags of Tumbledown Mountain was composed by Pipe Major James Riddell during the famous battle on the 13th of June.  He composed the piece on the back of a ration packet and after the battle was won and the mountain retaken from the Argentines, he famously played the first rendition of his new composition from the top of Mount Tumbledown.

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