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Ye Jacobites By Name

from The Roke by Colin Blakey

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This is Robert Burns' rewrite of an earlier song. Although still anti-Jacobite, his version is anti-war

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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, and you shall hear, you shall hear
Your doctrines I must blame, you 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 and a long
A weak arm and a strong for to draw, for to draw
A weak arm and 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
Or hunt a parent's life with bloody war, bloody war
Or hunt a parent's life with bloody war

Then let your schemes alone in the state, in the state
I'll leave your schemes alone in the state
Then leave your schemes alone, adore the rising sun
And leave a man alone to his fate, to his fate
I'll leave a man alone to his fate

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, and you shall hear, you shall hear
Your doctrines I must blame, you shall hear

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from The Roke, released September 12, 2021
Trad, arranged Colin Blakey
Vocal, guitar: Lucy Johnstone
Fiddle: Geoff Pagan
Border horn: Colin Blakey
Cello: Philippa Bull
Bodhran: Kenny Welsh

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Colin Blakey Scotland, UK

Over the years Colin has enjoyed playing world, folk, roots, psychedlic, rock, ska, and classical music. He learned enough about jazz and Indian classical music to know that he will need a few more lifetimes to follow up those genres. He continues to write and record from his home in Argyll, Scotland, under the name of 'Orchestra Macaroon'. ... more

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