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Some more Jacobite music
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).
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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Ooh, I wonder if the English word "scrivener" is any etymological relation??
ETA: no, but as a relevant data point: "The word comes from Middle English scriveiner, an alteration of obsolete scrivein, from Anglo-French escrivein, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *scriban-, scriba, itself an alteration of Latin scriba (scribe)" (x)
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