Aug. 31st, 2022

regshoe: A Jacobite white rose (White rose)
I haven't posted any music recs for a while, so have my latest Jacobite fave!



Folk music can be so beautifully direct sometimes—ye're but a pack o' traitor louns, ye'll dae nae guid at a'—and James Malcolm sings this with a great contemptuous straightforwardness.

This is another of the after-the-fact Jacobite songs, written years after the '45. Robert Burns wrote at least some of it—the lyrics in the Jacobite Relics of Scotland include several more verses than the words given on this Burns website and also used in this recording, so perhaps those came from elsewhere.

Also, another small cool Scots-Swedish link—you'll notice the word 'descrive' (not 'describe') used in the third verse, which is more obviously than the standard English related to Swedish 'skriva' (which means 'write'; 'describe' would be 'beskriva', the prefixes evidently still being different).

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