+PapaNoMidokoro "Beautiful rendition of this old song. If I'd been alive at the time, all the great songs would have tempted me to join the Jacobites! ;)" Not me. The Nazis had some good tunes, too, but that didn't make their politics OK, did it? What was loved was not Charlie, a useless and arrogant aristocrat, but the deceptive dream, the false hope of oppressed people, spun around him in times when such propaganda tricks met with less justified cynicism than they do now. This is a sad song of deceived people who hadn't realised it yet, and for whom the alternative would be no better, so it's a historically important part of the tradition. This is a beautiful rendering of it.
Bonnie Charlie's noo awa Safely o'er the friendly main Mony a heart will break in twa Should he ne'er come back again. Chorus Will ye no' come back again? Will ye no' come back again? Better lo'ed ye canna be Will ye no' come back again? Ye trusted in your Hielan' men They trusted you, dear Charlie They kent your hiding in the glen Death or exile braving. English bribes were a' in vain Tho' puir, and puirer, we maurn be Siller canna buy the heat That beats aye for thine and thee. We watch'd thee in the gloamin' hour We watch'd thee in the mornin' grey Tho' thirty thousand pound they gie Oh, there is nane that wad betray!
I’ve only just, today, come across this group. I’m so glad I did.
Beautiful rendition of this old song. If I'd been alive at the time, all the great songs would have tempted me to join the Jacobites! ;)
Love this song - and North Sea Gas! Thanks, Linda!
Ah. " Platform One " Those were the days. Thanks Lads.
And thanks for this.. marvellous
I am a new listener to your songs and music and a convert thanks for such a honest feeling and fine songs
I will get this correct yet LOL..It is indeed called Ringsend Rose from the release Caledonian Connection which may have only been on cassette
Lovely version of a bonny song.
+PapaNoMidokoro
"Beautiful rendition of this old song. If I'd been alive at the time, all the great songs would have tempted me to join the Jacobites! ;)"
Not me. The Nazis had some good tunes, too, but that didn't make their politics OK, did it? What was loved was not Charlie, a useless and arrogant aristocrat, but the deceptive dream, the false hope of oppressed people, spun around him in times when such propaganda tricks met with less justified cynicism than they do now.
This is a sad song of deceived people who hadn't realised it yet, and for whom the alternative would be no better, so it's a historically important part of the tradition.
This is a beautiful rendering of it.
Bonnie Charlie's noo awa
Safely o'er the friendly main
Mony a heart will break in twa
Should he ne'er come back again.
Chorus
Will ye no' come back again?
Will ye no' come back again?
Better lo'ed ye canna be
Will ye no' come back again?
Ye trusted in your Hielan' men
They trusted you, dear Charlie
They kent your hiding in the glen
Death or exile braving.
English bribes were a' in vain
Tho' puir, and puirer, we maurn be
Siller canna buy the heat
That beats aye for thine and thee.
We watch'd thee in the gloamin' hour
We watch'd thee in the mornin' grey
Tho' thirty thousand pound they gie
Oh, there is nane that wad betray!
Have not heard a song by this group that I didn't like...Anybody have " Guns and Roses by them ?
Sounds just like balsam range
I am so sorry for the incorrect name..It is indeed Rings and Rose..
That is the name that I have it named in my folder.