Robert Burns - Ye Jacobites By Name [Ian Bruce] video free download


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Uploaded: 2011/12/22

Following Info taken from Wikipedia (I know, the Lazy way out):

"Ye Jacobites by Name" is a traditional Scottish folk song which goes back to the Jacobite Risings in Scotland (1688--1746). While the original version simply attacked the Jacobites from a contemporaneous Whig point of view [this song is NOT this version, but the Robert Burns version], Robert Burns rewrote it in around 1791 to give a version with a more general, humanist anti-war outlook. This version, Robert Burns version, is the version that most people know today.

Lyrics, in original Scots form:

Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear, give an ear,

Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear,

Ye Jacobites by name,

Your fautes I will proclaim,

Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear.

What is Right, and What is Wrang, by the law, by the law?

What is Right and what is Wrang by the law?

What is Right, and what is Wrang?

A short sword, and a lang,

A weak arm and a strang, for to draw.

What makes heroic strife, famed afar, famed afar?

What makes heroic strife famed afar?

What makes heroic strife?

To whet th' assassin's knife,

Or hunt a Parent's life, wi' bluidy war?

Then let your schemes alone, in the state, in the state,

Then let your schemes alone in the state.

Then let your schemes alone,

Adore the rising sun,

And leave a man undone, to his fate.

Comments

9 years ago

Christopher Butcher

Can I order this artist Make you want to take the Jacobite Express. Full steam ahead

9 years ago

Hira Chaudhry

Amazing

10 years ago

Ian Bruce

Thanks ArkyBark. It is always nice to be credited. If anyone is interested I have two Robert Burns CDs released Alloway Tales, which includes this song and Rhythm and Burns which, IMHO, is a very interesting take on Robert Burns. All the best. Ian Bruce XXX

10 years ago

Arkybark

Put Ian Bruce in the title, or at least tag him so that this will be found. A lot of people are putting up songs from this collection without crediting the singer. I just came across Ronnie Browne a few days ago, uncredited.

10 years ago

Maria Carton

Es una preciosidad. El próximo verano conoceré Escocia. Voy a leer a Burns, aunque lamentablemente tendrá que ser en español.

10 years ago

madscally1

you're playing the song of my people :) i'm ayrshire born and bred.

10 years ago

allan connochie

Burns rewrote the words to the song so that is how it survived. The original is vehemently anti-Jacobite whilst Burns tones it down. Still blaming them but in a less vitriolic, more conciliatory way than the original song

10 years ago

ByronRaver

It's a miracle any of this survives to this day. Written 300 years ago when the Jacobite cause and Scotland future was looking well dodgy. We had Scottish enlightenment. We absolutely ruled in arts, economics, philosophy, science. Thank you to a humble Ayshire farmer. and the national bard of Scotland.

10 years ago

irish0dragon0warrior

This song is taken from a Compilation album, Vol 2 of 12. robertburns . org / completesongs . shtml Just checked the back of the casing and it says the singer of this particular song was Ian Bruce. This CD has 10 different vocalists and 13 Instrumentalists.

10 years ago

blogward

fantastic - who's the artist please?

11 years ago

irish0dragon0warrior

The whole CD I have is amazing :) I have several other songs of his that I really really like that I want to upload. Have you listened two the other two of his I have on on here?

11 years ago

Vinson Visions

This is awesome!

11 years ago

Sulaiman Al Harrasi

I love R.Burns

11 years ago

acerb45666555

Burn's was Jacobite in his heart! He wrote the most amazing little poem of Stirling castle, and the Royal House Of Stuart! (He used the word Stewart).

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