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Jacobites Songs and Ballads I L L I NO I S UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN PRODUCTION NOTE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Brittle Books Project, 2010. COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION In Public Domain. Published prior to 1923. This digital copy was made from the printed version held by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was made in compliance with copyright law. Prepared for the Brittle Books Project, Main Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by Northern Micrographics Brookhaven Bindery La Crosse, Wisconsin 2010 is, fir'~~ ~ ~ r 6C"-.. l ,, a <<_ MRS. ANNIE M.L. CLARK al :R) x r r Ac I WO J A$ IZ THE UfNiv~rSiTY (i 6LfItOiS ezLISRMRY 1oe1 tM'Z4j Kw , ACOBITE SONGS AND BALLADS [SELECTED]. v: - EDITED) WITH NOTES AND INTRODUCTORY NOTE, BY G. S. MACQUQID. pr FI LONDON:- WALTER- SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE AND NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. 1887. -- -f INDEX. INTRODUCTION. PAGE PAGE A Balland for those, etc... 243 Carlisle Yetts..........209 An excellent new song on Charlie is my darling. 171 the Rebellion.........116 Charlie is my darling - At Auchindown.........73 second set............172 A Toast...............246 Charlie's Landing. 142 Awa, Whigs, awa. .... 60 Charlie Stuart .... ...... 236 Clan-Ronald's men. 238 Bannocks of Barley ... 231 Como, let us be jovial. 136 Battle of Val............. 245 Come, let us drink a health, Bauldy Fraser ........... 19' boys ................. 111 Be valiant still......... 154 Culloden day............ 192 Bogieside ; or, Huntly's Raid ................. 91 Derwentwater .......... 105 Bonny Charlie......219 Derwentwater's farewell .. 106 Both sides of the Tweed .. 276 Donald Macgillavry ... 83 Britons, now retrieve your Drummossie Muir .... 236 ................. glory 70 Farewell to Glen-Shalloch 212 Britons, who dare to claim 135 Flora's lament....... ... 266 By the side of a country Kirk wall ............. 182 Cake o'1Be rouy... valiaGladsmuir 29Gathering ................of the Mac- 177de Cake o' Crd.donalds.............. 140 I Callum-a-Glen ............ 210 Gt r Ra . 1 Came ye. o'er frae France?. Gahrn6at.....4 Carle, an' the King come. 26 a Carlisle Ha' ............. 208, Hamne, hame, hame...271 INDEX. PAGE PAGE He comes, he comes, the Lochiel's warning. 165 hero comes...........157 Lochmaben gate.........74 Here's a health to the Lowland Lassie ......... 162 valiant Swede........110 Here's his health in water 244 Maclean's welcome....149 He's coming here. 158 Merry may the keel row .. 109 He winna be guidit by me 114 My laddie.............. 267 Highland Harry ......... 207 My love he was a Highland. Highland Laddie... 161 lad...................2 I ha'e nae kith, I ba'e nae Now Charles asserts his, kin...................831 father's right......... 168 It was a' for our rightfu' king.................. 45 Ode on the birthday of Prince Charles Edward Jamie the Rover.......... 70 Stuart..............250 Jemmy Dawson ......... 258 On the restoration of the Johnnie Cope ........... 178 forfeited estates, 1784:.. 274 Johnnie Cope-second set 175 O wad ye ken whare she comes frae...........256 O'er the water to Charlie.. 148 Kane to the King. 159 Oh ! cauld in the mools .. 289 Killicrankie------------...18 O Kenmure's on and awa.. 101 Killicrankie-second set .. 40 O my King.......... ... 99 King William's March. 48 On by moss and mountain green...............187 Lachin y Gair...........205 On Murray of Broughton.. 282 Lament for the Lord Max. On the Act of Succession well................102 .(1708). 49 Lenaehan's farewell . 227 On William, Duke of Cum- Let misers tremble o'er berland............. .. 284 their wealth ........... 120 Our ain bonny laddie .... 187 Let our great James come Over the seas and far awa (1) 36 over.................78 Over the seas and farawa (2) 77 Lewie Gordon..........153 O what's the matter wi' the Lochiel's farewell. 194 Whigs?........81 I ,. - INDEX. PAGE PAGE o what's the rhyme to The Chevalier's muster-roll 84 porringer?............47 The Clans are all away.... 208 The Clans are coming .... 146 Perfidious Britain. 115 The Cuckoo.............69 Prince Charles..........265 The Curses............262 Prince Charles's lament (1) 226 The Emigrant..........258 Prince Charles's lament (2) 248 The Exile's lament. 263 Prince Charles and Flora The Exile to his country.. 269 Macdonald's welcome to The fate of Charlie. 196 Skye................241 The Frasers in the Correi 217 The gathering of the Hays 181 or, the auld Queen Anne; Haughs of Cromdale.. 88 grey mare........... 1he The Heath-cock......... 191 The Highlander's farewell. 224 Royal Charlie (1). 160 The Highlander's lament.. 222 Charlie (2). 249 Royal The Highland laddie. 149 The Highlandmen came Sheriff-muir, modern set.. 95 down the hill.........186 Somebody.............121 The Highland widow's la- Strathallan's lament. 247 ment................ 220 Such a parcel of rogues in The Jacobite's pledge ...-. 263 a nation ............... 30 The King's Anthem . 13 The lament of Flora Mac. The appearance of Crom- donald ............... 223 wells ghost, etc......189 The lovely lass of Inverness 215 The auld Stuarts back The lovely lass of Inverness - again ................. 71 The Awkward Squad .... 51 (modern)............217 The battle of Sheriff-muir. 86 The Mayor of Carlisle .... 184 The Bee-hive........... 260 The Old Man's lament .... 214 The Blackbird ........... 129 The Piper o' Dundee ... 118 The bonnyHighland laddie 179 The Rebellious Crew .... 67 The bonny Moorhen ... 260 There'll never be peace till The Change ......... ... 211 Jamie comes hame ... 41 The Chevalier's birthday.. 119 The Restoration.......... 27 The Chevalier's lament.... 22t The Riding Mare.....62 I 8 INDEX. PAGE PAGE The Royal Oak Tree...... 28 Turn the blue bonnet wha The song of M'Rimmoui can.................168 Glash............. 229 The sow's tail to Geordie.. 65 Ungrate The sun's bright in France 219 Up and rin awa, Wil.i.... 285 The tears of Scotland .... 200 The Thistle and Rose .... 25 Wae's me for Prince The Turnimspike ........ 272 Charlie..............199 The Union ............... W m we a' be. 80 The waes of Scotland .... 75 Welcome, Charlie, o'er the main................156 T wee, wee Germnan Wba'llbe KingbutCharlie? 148. lairdie............. What news to me, carlin ?.. 103 The White Cockade ...... 108 Wha wadna fight for The wind has blawn my plaid awa....... "..... 130 hRliea.............170 The young Maxwell ... 123 hnRyl hre . 6 This is no my aini house .. 42 When the King comes o'er Though Geordie reigns in the water.............537 Jamie's stead.........122 Whurry Whigs awa . 125 To daunton me......... 151 Wl en oebc Todantneseonse 12 again? ............... 228 To daunton me-third set 158 Willie the wag........... 46 Towvnly's ghost.......... 204 Wli ikesTsaet4 To your arms, my bonny Young Airly............ 85. Highland lads ......... 184 you're welcome, Charlie True blue.............. 264 Stuart............ ... 202 NOTES............ ................ ea............... 279 I ~IUUZ~UIlWIl Ilr~-v rlru u~u rvu I,,,,,,._, INTRODUCTORY NOTE. N the following poems and ballads the arrangement is as nearly as possible chronological, so as to give in some measure a history of the events which they commemorate. Among the number will be found many poems of great beauty, dramatic power, and pathos, while some, though characteristic and humorous, are little better than doggerel. What must chiefly strike the reader, as he looks through these songs of the people, is the wonderful variety they show, and the forcible way in which they exemplify the mani- fold feelings and passions of human nature. The Highlanders were essentially a conservative people; they clung to old fashions, and they resisted fiercely all attempts at innovation. Throughout the songs this feeling of conserva- tism is predominant; the cry is constantly for the old ways and the old insular line of kings; and the bitter feeling against the House of i Io INTROD UCTORY NOTE. Hanover seems to be greatly due to its foreign element and its new-fangled customs. But, apart from this love of old fashions, as one reads the history of the Stuarts, it is difficult to account for the veneration in which the ill-fated family was held, unless we give great weight to the powers of personal fascination which several members of the family possessed. It was the fashion among some historians to talk of the ill luck of the Stuarts, and to declare that even the elements warred against them; but when their acts of government, or misgovernment, are considered, it is remarkable that they met with even as much success as they did, and were tolerated for so long a time. To a collection of this description there seems to be little need for a preface, the songs speak so plainly and so feelingly for themselves. These songs and notes are chiefly taken from Jacobite Minstrelsy,published in 1829, which collec- tion appears to have been founded, to a great extent, upon Hogg's Jacobite Relics. The three songs, "Charlie's Landing," "Wha'll be King but Charlie," and the second set of "Charlie is my Darling," are by Lady Nairne. Her father, Laurence Oliphant, was an aide-de-camf of the Young Pretender in the "'Forty-five," and carried to Edinburgh the news of the battle of Prestonpans. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. II Lady Nairne herself lived until 1845, just a hundred years after the events of which she sings, and of which she had first-hand evidence. James Hogg, or the Ettrick Shepherd as he was more familiarly called, translated a number of songs from the Gaelic, but he admitted that he could not at all render the wild beauty of the originals. Some songs he entirely composed himself, and others he altered. The Ettrick Shepherd was born in 1770 in a cottage on the banks of the Ettrick, in Selkirkshire. His ancestors had been shepherds for centuries. His father, Robert Hogg, for a time wooed fortune as a farmer, but after losing all his property became a shepherd again.
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