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Ye Jacobites By Name / Sir Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch

from Tales of Love War & Death by Hanging by Ray Cooper

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The tune Sir Archibald Mc Donald of Keppoch is an old Scottish waltz which always makes me think of the villages of Glen Coe, the homeland of the Mc Donalds of Keppoch which in 1692 were laid waste and the inhabitants massacred.
Ye Jacobites By Name was written by the Scottish poet, bon viveur and father of many children Robert Burns in 1792. The Jacobites were a Scottish faction that wanted to re-instate a king from the Stewart line (a catholic) and they had already had two bloody rebellions that century. Although a Jacobite himself, Burns thought it was time to lay down the weapons and made this plea for peace. This song is dedicated to all those people that like fighting.

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Ye Jacobites By Name

Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name your faults I will proclaim
And your doctrines I must blame as ye shall hear ye shall hear
Your doctrines I must blame as ye shall hear

What's right and what is wrong by the law by the law
What's right and what is wrong by the law
What's right and what is wrong a short sword or a long
A weak arm or a strong
For to draw for to draw
A weak arm or a strong for to draw

What makes heroic strife famed afar famed afar
What makes heroic strife famed afar
What makes heroic strife to whet the assassin's knife
And haunt a parent's life with bloody war bloody war
And haunt a parent's life with bloody war

So leave your schemes alone in this state in this state
Aye leave your schemes alone in this state
Leave your schemes alone adore the rising sun
And leave a man alone to his fate to his fate
Aye leave a man alone to his fate.

Words Robert Burns
Music traditional arranged Ray Cooper

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from Tales of Love War & Death by Hanging, released October 1, 2010

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Ray Cooper is a singer/songwriter and multi instrumentalist currently residing in the depths of Sweden where he moved in 2000. He left Oysterband in 2013 after a year in which they picked up 3 BBC2 Folk Awards and appeared live on the "Later..with Jools Holland' show. Since then he has carved out a successful solo career.

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