The Corries White Cockade

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  • @cmdaes
    @cmdaes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    I watch this again and again just to see the children leaping and singing happilly down the road. It is the way the world should be.

    • @KittyStarlight
      @KittyStarlight ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "This is how the world should be.
      All the children strong and free."
      (Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel opera, translated)

  • @kingussie
    @kingussie 15 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    The wee lads and lassies were the pupils of Kingussie Primary School. I pinned the cocades on the Corries (Oh the nerves! I was sure I would stick them!) My isiter is the curly blonde behind Roy :-) Oh the memories. this was the most exciting event in our wee lives.

    • @1963felonee
      @1963felonee 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      thats awesome

    • @williamsutherland7466
      @williamsutherland7466 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A fantastic film have always wondered where the kids came from that skipped and sang along the road with the Corrie's and who was the wee lass that hah to pin the emblems on them you were a brave wee lass ROZ thankyou

    • @1234Krueger
      @1234Krueger 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hooray Roz! A moment only once in your life! But for all your lifetime! Wonderful film, wonderful children. Where have all the good times gone?

    • @MacKenziePoet
      @MacKenziePoet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is the most awesome thing I've ever seen!

    • @annedwards1900
      @annedwards1900 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What a fantastic memory to have!

  • @michaelnordin2662
    @michaelnordin2662 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The Royal house of Stuart, the faithful clans (not all of them sadly) and the 45', what an epic period in the history of Scotland ...

  • @KennBurch
    @KennBurch 13 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    It really adds something to have the kids singing with them in this. A bit of fun and yet a bit of poignancy. Also, a symbol of the music being kept alive.

  • @marthasimons7940
    @marthasimons7940 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Learned this song almost 60 years ago as a school girl in New Jersey. Always loved it. I have seen it with different verses and the same refrain.

  • @runt8243
    @runt8243 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    That gorgeous instrument that Roy is playing is called a Bandurria. I believe it’s Spanish in origin. It has been beautifully adopted into Scottish music along with the mandolin.

    • @daviddkilpatrick
      @daviddkilpatrick 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very difficult to play and normally strummed with chords, rather than used like a mandolin on steroids. In Roy's hands with what I suspect may be a different tuning to the straight fourths used in Spain (like a guitar only instead of B and E for the highest two strings, you get C and F) it sounds lovely. When played en masse by 'sabados' (weekend/festival local instrument and vocal groups) it's very different - and almost impossible to get/keep in tune!

  • @KittyStarlight
    @KittyStarlight ปีที่แล้ว +15

    These children are long grown up by now but this video lives forever. ❤️💙❤️ (Inside our hearts as well as on TH-cam. ❤️💙❤️)
    Follow the laddie with the white cockade. 🌼
    Oh, and also.
    Bravo the Corries. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @aitoreitordemoleitor
    @aitoreitordemoleitor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    From the Basque Country Honor for all heroes of scotland

  • @kowens1956
    @kowens1956 8 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    the fifer and drummer of the Acton Company, Massachusetts Militia played this tune as they confronted British regulars at the Concord north Bridge. A Jacobite tune to gall the regulars.

    • @Stephen17116
      @Stephen17116 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Squirtnik Killington haha I'm from Westford

    • @MacKenziePoet
      @MacKenziePoet 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amazing history!

    • @babyjenks1784
      @babyjenks1784 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Luther Blanchard my 7th great grand uncle

    • @Jack-fs2im
      @Jack-fs2im 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes 400 Massachussets Militia fought 100 British Regulars at Concord N,Bridge

    • @Alan_Mac
      @Alan_Mac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is very much not a Jacobite tune since it predates the revolution of 1688. As a song/lyrics combination, it also dates from some time after 1787 when Rober Burns wrote the lyrics and it was attached to this old tune.
      So the militia company may well have played the tune. What they certainly didn't do was play something about Jacobites or, 'gall the regulars'.

  • @duncanidaho2097
    @duncanidaho2097 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a great Scottish country dance. God I miss dancing.
    -A Yank in Socal

  • @sojnab1
    @sojnab1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    born and bred Irish,love this song and the Corries

  • @fontenoyjoe
    @fontenoyjoe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Born in November of 1968 of Mexican parents.....Hurrah the white cockade!!!!!!!

  • @kingussie
    @kingussie 15 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Hi Fireflyx15 I'm very glad you did post it. My daughter suggested looking for this clip here and I never in my wildest dreams imagined I would find it. So thanks again
    Oh!.. I have to say, The Corries were just wonderful to us. They sang us all sorts of funny little cheeky songs between takes etc. :-)

  • @magnusosmond1835
    @magnusosmond1835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I'd say just the fact the kids know the lyrics shows they had good parents lol

    • @KittyStarlight
      @KittyStarlight ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh too true. ^_____^

    • @KittyStarlight
      @KittyStarlight ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And they even know how to sing. 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

    • @KittyStarlight
      @KittyStarlight ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They are skipping in time to the music, or it looks like it anyway.
      Just realized that when I started to sing the chorus and their skipping was part of what was keeping me in time.
      That's pretty impressive for their age(s).
      They will all be grown up by now of course.
      Not sure if their school taught them or their parents taught them or what, but whoever it was did an excellent job.
      (So did the kids too of course.)

  • @JimMcCrudden-w6g
    @JimMcCrudden-w6g 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think that into their wee hearts went a love of Scotland, the land they were born, forever. Mammy, daddy, Scotland!

  • @mitchrils
    @mitchrils 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is a beautiful video. Wholesome in every aspect.

  • @91tomatoes
    @91tomatoes 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    50 years on and this still makes my heart happy. thank you.

  • @norriemctavish8868
    @norriemctavish8868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughan singing the red Flag to this melody is perfect.

  • @Macangusagain
    @Macangusagain 15 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    just awesome,never saw it before , another wonderful Corries song with a love for Scotland , Albainn gu brath

  • @Grifflaw
    @Grifflaw 11 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Corries - Legends!

  • @PaulR986
    @PaulR986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Blimey it is now October 2020 and I came across this by accident. Brilliant - such clean and respectable Corries!

  • @ScottishShorts
    @ScottishShorts 13 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    @Chomuno The white cockade was a symbol worn on the blue bonnets of the Highlanders as they followed Tearloch/Chairly to his and our fate in the years of 1745 to 1746. (Only worn by the Jacobites who could afford a bonnet. others wore then on shirts or other bits of clothing. ) Many is the day I have flown down this road and others in Kingussie in my uncles wee 3 wheeled car.

    • @stuartrobertson6356
      @stuartrobertson6356 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      All to do with religion Catholics and protestants .

  • @fireflyxl5
    @fireflyxl5  15 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Hello! Thats absolutely amazing! Happy memories! Thanks for sharing that. It made my day, Im really glad I put that clip on now:)

  • @stevekaczynski3793
    @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In the Jacobite forces of 1745-46, there were deserters from the British Army who continued to wear their uniforms, merely removing the Hanoverian black cockade and replacing it with the white one. The Jacobites' rather poor quartermaster service often had no other uniforms to issue anyway. A number of them were executed after the rebellion was suppressed.

  • @nw57
    @nw57 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this is awesome!!! you did a great job with it. I love how the audio matches the video.this is going to be one of my favorite videos of all time and I'm sending the link to my folkie friends. thank you!!!

    • @fireflyxl5
      @fireflyxl5  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi David, glad you liked it, my uncle taped it from the Scottish TV many years ago. :)

    • @nw57
      @nw57 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fireflyxl5 thanks, that explains a lot, including all those "cozy" concerts you posted. in the 60s it seems that folk music was all over TV in several countries with many performances before small audiences. You've done a great service posting them.

  • @mckieandrena8019
    @mckieandrena8019 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Roy and Rnnie and the lassies and ladies wonderful Love you all Andrena

  • @trilingual28
    @trilingual28 13 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The harmonies are so beautiful! Thank you for posting, I love it!

  • @beatricesimonetti9230
    @beatricesimonetti9230 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pura gioia e coinvolgente armonia....la suonerò e canterò con la chitarra

  • @carole7351
    @carole7351 15 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Perhaps I was Scotch in a previous lifetime, but the Corries touch my soul as no other group ever did!

    • @rogueriderhood1862
      @rogueriderhood1862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Scots, not Scotch. Scotch is a drink!

    • @GaiaDanu
      @GaiaDanu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s a rum remark 🥃

  • @ciaran6171
    @ciaran6171 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The cause and cure of homesickness.

  • @gaconnochie
    @gaconnochie 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This has to be my favourite Corries video

  • @beastlyman01265
    @beastlyman01265 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    how did i get here? i started out listening to sea chanties.

  • @Arcmck
    @Arcmck ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I sang this with my friend online he died of brain cancer 1 month😭😭

    • @Dryhten1801
      @Dryhten1801 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      rest in peace to him

  • @heylormammy
    @heylormammy 14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @kingussie
    I have been a Corries fan all my life, so when my son Roy found this story, he showed me, I had to say hi. It's a wonderful story, thanks for sharing it =)

  • @Kerys23a
    @Kerys23a 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Long live the House of Stuart may they return and banish the usurpers.

    • @stuartrobertson6356
      @stuartrobertson6356 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Clown

    • @Kerys23a
      @Kerys23a 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stuartrobertson6356 No.

    • @Kerys23a
      @Kerys23a 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stuartrobertson6356 When I say banish I mean from the throne it would be inhumane to kick them out of the country.

    • @mitchell9959
      @mitchell9959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Might be a bit late for that but I think we al know who the good guys were in 1745

    • @silverarrowslk
      @silverarrowslk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      stuart robertson Bet your a daft Billy Boy

  • @jamiecorrigan3241
    @jamiecorrigan3241 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    TIMELESS AND WONDERFUL.

  • @patbaxter6588
    @patbaxter6588 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This song and words mean a lot to me The White Cockade

  • @nbenefiel
    @nbenefiel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We are all passing now, but our music will live long after us.

  • @stephenconnacher8813
    @stephenconnacher8813 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a fun and pleasant video!

  • @YsanndalFionavar
    @YsanndalFionavar 14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @carole7351
    I know what you mean. I'm from Germany, but in the moment I hear the Corries, my heart cries for Caledonia. I'm sure, I lived there in a former live.

  • @TheDdonmac22
    @TheDdonmac22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Anyone listening .mah guys need a scottish knighthood.Cos they make me greet every friday when am oan the swalley .Scotlands underestimated mediavel minstrels.

  • @MrTam63
    @MrTam63 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love the wee lassie that cannae seem tae skip right at 1.55

  • @BrianHunter-ni1pn
    @BrianHunter-ni1pn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And I thought that the Pied Piper was a work of fiction.

  • @irishhistoryman
    @irishhistoryman 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stirs the blood! Thanks for this wonderful post

  • @elziacoralka
    @elziacoralka 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And Scotch is an old fashioned term used for Scottish, it's still popular in the Americas.

  • @maitiucibhleachain5139
    @maitiucibhleachain5139 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video

  • @chrisjones2393
    @chrisjones2393 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fantastic

  • @wadefite
    @wadefite 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    this my favourite corries video.

  • @1234Krueger
    @1234Krueger 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Geil! Geil! Geil! Einfach nur geil!

  • @endora60
    @endora60 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @alligatorgal Think of the time and place. Kids actually did things like skip along. I think it would have been great if they'd started out with the kids and then gradually adults joined in the group too.

  • @noddypopable
    @noddypopable 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The white cockade was the white rose wore by Charlie the young pretender that he plucked from a bush on a march in Scotland. Not a proper rose but The garden wan. Many many Jacobites mimicked his rose upon their blue bonnets. And of course, Jacobites were not religiously motivated, ye had Catholic and Protestant and everyone inbetween just wanting the stuarts back on their seat.

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Albannach And an end to the union.

  • @papanomidokoro
    @papanomidokoro 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant.

  • @elytillidie1
    @elytillidie1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good band and group

  • @drosie2211
    @drosie2211 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    my ancestor captain issac davis played this song on his march to concord bridge during the revolutionary war

    • @babyjenks1784
      @babyjenks1784 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am descended from Calvin Blanchard, brother to Luther Blanchard, the fifer for the Acton Minutemen

    • @Alan_Mac
      @Alan_Mac 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He didn't play this song as it wasn't written until at least 1787. He may have had the tune played - but that's different.

  • @gabrielanderson7250
    @gabrielanderson7250 ปีที่แล้ว

    Clan Anderson here?

  • @patrioticarchive
    @patrioticarchive 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice :)

  • @seantig479
    @seantig479 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    An immortal, heroic tune with boundless optimism. Reminds me of the glorious American South and the "Bonnie Blue Flag."

  • @Arkybark
    @Arkybark 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ah but they were the pied pipers,weren't they?

  • @gaconnochie
    @gaconnochie 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Scotch" was a term imported from England which became used in Scotland too from the 1700s or so. The native terms 'Scots' or 'Scottish' have long reistablished themselves this side of the Atlantic and because people know the Scots don't particularly like the term "Scotch" it can also be used as a mild derogatory term by non-Scots. Obviously the word remains in use in North America but best not to use it in Scotland itself or you'd be plagued by people saying they are Scottish not Scotch.

    • @Bashyboyash
      @Bashyboyash 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Albanach being Gaelic, a language that is not, and has never been spoken in the vast majority of Scotland.

    • @Dunsapie
      @Dunsapie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well actually it was. The last speaker of Galloway Gaelic died in the 1800s and until the early years of the last century Gaelic was spoken in parts of Lanarkshire. Many place names throughout the Lowlands can be traced to Gaelic roots.

    • @Arkybark
      @Arkybark 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wondering where the expression "scotched", as in cancelled, came from........

  • @brenutube08
    @brenutube08 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    The words of 'The Red Flag', anthem of the International Labour Movement, which was written by Irish socialist Jim Connell, from Kilskyre, County Meath, was intended to be sung to the air of The White Cockade. Connell wanted it that way, but as time went on people switched it to the air of Tannenbaum. A pity, perhaps.

  • @ZSKadar-ns5jc
    @ZSKadar-ns5jc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Age of Innocence.

  • @awmascrotum
    @awmascrotum 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @Chomuno The white cockade was worn to by Jacobites to symbolise their support of the Catholic Stewarts(Stuarts) claim on the British throne

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Although most Scottish Jacobites also wanted to end the union and urged Charlie to consolidate in Scotland and take the throne of Scotland alone. The aims of the Scottish, Irish and English Jacobites varies from each other and also from the Stuarts themselves who wanted all three thrones, albeit an end to the Union.

  • @scotjack
    @scotjack 14 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How beautifully healthy and slim all the kids look. This must have been filmed BM.
    ("Before Macdonalds")

    • @AA-sn9lz
      @AA-sn9lz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wtf u blaming McDonald's for? Its not as much at fault as the ones going in and buying

    • @humphandhumbug
      @humphandhumbug 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The nearest Macdonald’s is over 40 miles away in Inverness.

  • @paddy1952
    @paddy1952 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The people are Scots. They're Scottish. The whiskey is Scotch. It's Scottish too.

    • @mattywatt4754
      @mattywatt4754 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The scottish way of spelling whisky is without an E you are spelling it the Irish way mi ladieo

    • @paddy1952
      @paddy1952 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Matty Watt Well, ye see boyo, that could possibly be due to the fact that I'm Irish. If you read my posts and look closely at my image you'll perceive the rapier like wit and rugged beauty of my countenance that are together the hallmark of my species. Still, not wanting to give offence I plan some more research into the subject this very evening. Who knows; by morning I may very well be spelling it without the E. ;}

    • @paddy1952
      @paddy1952 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You're a wise man. Anyway, I love the Scot's music every bit as much as I love our own. As for the uisce beatha, I'd rather drink it than write about it.

    • @karenmercer8785
      @karenmercer8785 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      (Just waiting for someone to complain that he's spelled "uisce" the Irish way now, rather than as "uisge"..)

    • @The_Gallowglass
      @The_Gallowglass 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The correct way is uisce beatha, mo bhuachaill. Even in Scots Gaelic it's uisge-beatha, so there's a goddamn E! :P

  • @KennBurch
    @KennBurch 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the instrument Roy is playing in this clip?

  • @9393zach
    @9393zach 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's called a Mandriola.

  • @carole7351
    @carole7351 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for the correction!

  • @Chomuno
    @Chomuno 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the signification of the white cockade? Is it a military symbol? Or does it mean "Liberty"?

    • @Kerys23a
      @Kerys23a 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Symbol of the Jacobite cause.

  • @Vespasianus69
    @Vespasianus69 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    So, Kin-oos-sie (you don't pronounce the "g," correct?), that's you, the tallish lass who kept her coat on over her jumper? February! I was there in May, twelve (12) years ago, to visit Ruthven Bks. & it was windy & cold as all get-out. Don't blame you for trying to stay warm. So, did the BBC tell you all to skip along behind the boyz, or did that come naturally? Great video. WAY too short -- they should have let you-all skip along and sing four or five more verses!! Bravo.

  • @anthonymcintyre2242
    @anthonymcintyre2242 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi, I'm looking for a trad song, the lyrics go " On my fathers grave green grass grows". Any help out there?

    • @nakima61
      @nakima61 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's a song called Lady Mary Anne that features very similar lyrics. Check it out at Celtic Lyrics Corner.

  • @Scotsgit
    @Scotsgit 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @carole7351 It's SCOTS, not Scotch! Scotch refers to whisky, eggs or bonnets!

  • @prestonpans6812
    @prestonpans6812 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Thank you for your post. No war of independence happened in the 12 and 13 hundreds. You should not refer to the Wallace/ Bruce wars as a war of independence. This refers to colonies fighting for independence. Scotland had been a nation from at least the 800s, the struggle from 1297 was a fight against an illegal and very tenuous occupation - just as the French partisans struggled against an illegal occupation between 1940 and 1944. No one calls this a war of independence. Unionists label it a War of Independence to diminish Scotland, a much more ancient nation than England.
    I conscientiously referred to the 1745-46 conflict as a war to challenge the British label of 'rebellion' - in fact the Scottish patriots viewed the Hanoverians as rebels as their rule was based on the illegal usurpation of 1688.
    In 1745/46 Scots patriots invaded England and routed two armies of the line -stunning victories and were ready to renew the fight at Ruthven after the engagement outside Inverness in 1746. Do you really doubt this was a war?
    I never said it was Scots v English - I acknowledged there were Scots on the British side. Scots fought on both sides just as many Scots also fought against Wallace and Bruce and many French sided with the 3rd Reich.
    You are very wrong and disrespectful to label patriots as 'idiots' - they gave their life blood for Scotland. Duncan Ban McIntyre found himself on the British side at Falkirk but here is what he wrote some time afterwards:
    'For England has command of us;
    Since she did wholly conquer us;
    There is anger too and misery
    In many a man now at this time,
    Who was in William's (Cumberland) camp before
    Who's no better that he's won;
    And if Prince Charles to us returned
    We would rise and follow him'

  • @JohnSmith-ii9ci
    @JohnSmith-ii9ci 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this, before Scottish pride became poisoned by the SNP.

  • @mattd3826
    @mattd3826 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sounds like Lord of the Rings

  • @msgorganic
    @msgorganic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kevin from Stirling Castle was right

  • @finnociarain2085
    @finnociarain2085 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sung by the Whiteboys.

  • @JustaScotsman
    @JustaScotsman 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Vote for freedom.!! Soar Alba.!!

  • @MichaelKelly91
    @MichaelKelly91 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    ah your right enough. Irish upbringing you see

  • @seandoherty1239
    @seandoherty1239 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    NO SURRENDER.

    • @paddymac5161
      @paddymac5161 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sean Doherty your names sean 😂😂😂😂

  • @oisindayo
    @oisindayo 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Actually, Scotch is whisky, not whiskey. lol.

  • @MichaelKelly91
    @MichaelKelly91 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @carole7351 scottish, not Scotch. Scotch is whiskey or meat not a person

  • @Chomuno
    @Chomuno 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @kingussie Are you the little brown-haired boy on the right of Roy?

  • @scotjack
    @scotjack 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @topgun1863 How droll. (LOL)

  • @prestonpans6812
    @prestonpans6812 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    As most combatants wore their day clothes, in order to
    distinguish sides, cockades were displayed. It is a knot of ribbons or other circular
    or oval-shaped symbol usually pinned to a hat. The white cockade was worn by Scots
    patriots in War of Independence 1745-46. Scots who stayed loyal to the British
    Crown wore black cockades in their hats.

    • @prestonpans6812
      @prestonpans6812 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Boar Thank you for your post. No war of independence happened in the 12 and 13 hundreds. You should not refer to the Wallace/ Bruce wars as a war of independence. This refers to colonies fighting for independence. Scotland had been a nation from at least the 800s, the struggle from 1297 was a fight against an illegal and very tenuous occupation - just as the French partisans struggled against an illegal occupation between 1940 and 1944. No one calls this a war of independence. Unionists label it a War of Independence to diminish Scotland, a much more ancient nation than England.
      I conscientiously referred to the 1745-46 conflict as a war to challenge the British label of 'rebellion' - in fact the Scottish patriots viewed the Hanoverians as rebels as their rule was based on the illegal usurpation of 1688.
      In 1745/46 Scots patriots invaded England and routed two armies of the line -stunning victories and were ready to renew the fight at Ruthven after the engagement outside Inverness in 1746. Do you really doubt this was a war?
      I never said it was Scots v English - I acknowledged there were Scots on the British side. Scots fought on both sides just as many Scots also fought against Wallace and Bruce and many French sided with the 3rd Reich.
      You are very wrong and disrespectful to label patriots as 'idiots' - they gave their life blood for Scotland. Duncan Ban McIntyre found himself on the British side at Falkirk but here is what he wrote some time afterwards:
      'For England has command of us;
      Since she did wholly conquer us;
      There is anger too and misery
      In many a man now at this time,
      Who was in William's (Cumberland) camp before
      Who's no better that he's won;
      And if Prince Charles to us returned
      We would rise and follow him'

    • @Alan_Mac
      @Alan_Mac 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was no 'ware of independence' in 1745-46. What there was was a Polish-Italian trying to regain the British throne.

  • @scotjack
    @scotjack 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @carole7351 You may well have been Scots in a previous life, but not "Scotch"

  • @Jack-fs2im
    @Jack-fs2im 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    didn,t know banjos were scottish instruments naaah dont think so

    • @RetroFlame04
      @RetroFlame04 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Bandurria Roy is playing is Spanish. The Banjo originates in Scotland. Either way, they're almost destined to be a part of Scottish music.

    • @Jack-fs2im
      @Jack-fs2im 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RetroFlame04 The banjo originates from african slaves in the US and Carribean first documented in the 17th century described as African type instrument

    • @RetroFlame04
      @RetroFlame04 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Jack-fs2im It continues to develop in these regions, especially in North America, but the original banjo comes from West Africa, probably around the Senegambia region and it was brought over during the Atlantic Slave Trade and would continue to adapt and change with the inclusion of the Bass strings and the 5th string.
      I can't tell with this video, but Ronnie Browne either has a very unique 7-String Banjo or he has D-Tuners on a 5-String Open-Back.

    • @RetroFlame04
      @RetroFlame04 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Jack-fs2im Also, I just realized. I had some brain fog and accidentally put Scotland instead of Africa in my first response 🤦‍♂️

    • @Jack-fs2im
      @Jack-fs2im 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RetroFlame04 no prob.kind regards

  • @MichaelKelly91
    @MichaelKelly91 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    aye, and it's at best mildly condescending and at worst derogatory

  • @willherondale6367
    @willherondale6367 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    The people's flag is deepest red

    • @ruadhmacbradaigh4035
      @ruadhmacbradaigh4035 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly -- The Labour Party really screwed up by changing the tune .

  • @northscot9862
    @northscot9862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now they want to see blacks in Scotland.NEVER. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH