Here are some more links to (mostly) Jacobite songs! : D There existed Hanoverian songs as well, of course, but since that side won, they weren't kept alive afterwards as romanticized resistance songs.
Ye Jacobites By Name, by Robert Burns (written later in the 18th century, obviously). This one actually is an anti-Jacobite song, or at least a pretty great anti-war song. Same singer as the Glencoe massacre song.
"Cam Ye O'er Frae France" is a satirical song making fun of George I. I can't find a stand-alone YT video of Dick Gaughan's a capella rendition of it, which is my favorite, but you can find it at 12.05 in this album. And this site explains some of the references. This one is actually from that time and not written afterwards.
Both Sides the Tweed is tangentially a Jacobite song, but it's more about the 1707 union between England and Scotland. Dick Gaughan changed the lyrics in the 1970's to read "our land's sacred rights" instead of "our King's sacred rights" and wrote a new (very lovely!) melody for it, but the text is much older--it's in a collection I mention below, where the collector might have written down an old song, or might have written it himself. You can hear me singing the old melody for the song here (couldn't find it on Youtube, but I could find the sheet music).
Okay, I could go on and on, because there is A LOT of music associated with this history! You can find much more in this collection from 1819 and 1821, containing both Jacobite and Hanoverian songs.
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Re: First Part of the '45 (up to Derby)
Date: 2021-10-17 08:36 pm (UTC)Ye Jacobites By Name, by Robert Burns (written later in the 18th century, obviously). This one actually is an anti-Jacobite song, or at least a pretty great anti-war song. Same singer as the Glencoe massacre song.
"Cam Ye O'er Frae France" is a satirical song making fun of George I. I can't find a stand-alone YT video of Dick Gaughan's a capella rendition of it, which is my favorite, but you can find it at 12.05 in this album. And this site explains some of the references. This one is actually from that time and not written afterwards.
Both Sides the Tweed is tangentially a Jacobite song, but it's more about the 1707 union between England and Scotland. Dick Gaughan changed the lyrics in the 1970's to read "our land's sacred rights" instead of "our King's sacred rights" and wrote a new (very lovely!) melody for it, but the text is much older--it's in a collection I mention below, where the collector might have written down an old song, or might have written it himself. You can hear me singing the old melody for the song here (couldn't find it on Youtube, but I could find the sheet music).
Okay, I could go on and on, because there is A LOT of music associated with this history! You can find much more in this collection from 1819 and 1821, containing both Jacobite and Hanoverian songs.