Ye Jacobites By Name
Ye Jacobites By Name is a traditional Scottish folk song . The original version goes back to the Jacobite Wars in the first half of the 18th century. It was popularized more widely in the text version by Robert Burns from 1791. As a folksong -Traditional and Scottish Rebel Song, the piece is an integral part of the Anglo-Saxon - Irish folk song repertoire. Picked up by folk, punk and pop formations, the number of recorded versions goes into the hundreds.
history
The original version of the song goes back to the time of the Jacobite uprisings in the first decades of the 18th century. As a blacksmith against the Jacobites (the supporters of the Catholic King Jacob and his descendants among the clans and landowners of the Scottish Highlands ), it took the view of the Protestant bourgeoisie in the cities of the Lowlands , profiting from the rise of capitalism and advocating progress . Performing individual, exemplary stages of the uprisings, the Jacobites are classified as marauding hordes whose campaigns would have led to great hunger and death.
In contrast to the original version, the version from 1791, which was adapted by the Scottish poet Robert Burns and provided with a modified text, takes a more clarified point of view, taking into account the point of view of both parties. It was probably created as a revision for the Scots Musical Museum . Burns' new version can be understood on the one hand as a call to fight against British foreign rule. On the other hand, it can be interpreted as an admonition to adopt a positive, republican stance instead of being sentimentally behind a reactionary past. Burns' intentions in writing the new text are the subject of different interpretations to this day. Some chroniclers suggest that Burns' origins played a role; his grandfather was involved in the fighting as a member of the rebel army. Others emphasize Burns' royalist stance and his political proximity to the Whigs . Due to the comparison of the reality of war with the conscience question (to be answered by the listener) whether all this is ultimately worth him (second stanza: "What is right, what is wrong, by the law, by the law?"), The Burns' version of a humanistic statement that goes beyond the original occasion and accusations of the war as a whole .
Adaptations and cover versions
As a song that thematizes a painful section of Scottish history, Ye Jacobites by Name advanced to a well-known traditional that has been widely adapted to this day. It was revived, among other things, by the folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. It was also cultivated in youth group milieus such as the scouts or in the environment of youth organizations of the labor movement such as the falcons . The melody of the song found its way into other popular songs. Example: the piece Sam Hall , composed in the course of the 19th century , whose melody draws on individual set pieces by Ye Jacobites . Another free adaptation is the title Thatcherites by Billy Bragg from 1997. Bragg's variant - released on the mini-CD Upfield - converted the Burns text into an indictment of the Thatcher's government's social policy .
There are hundreds of versions of the piece published on phonograms or as digital files. The iTunes Music Store alone has several dozen in its portal. Most of it comes from Irish folk performers and bands as well as traditional folk musicians in a broader sense - including Noel McLoughlin , Ewan MacColl , The Corries , Eddi Reader , and Beth Patterson . Further recordings come from the German folk punk bands Metusa , Connemara Stone Company , An Cat Dubh and Fiddler's Green .
text
Original text version
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You Jacobites by Name, lend an ear, lend an ear, With the Pope you covenant, as they say, as they say, Your Prince and Duke o'Perth, where they go, where they go, He is the King of Reef, I'll declare, I'll declare, They marched thro 'our Land cruelly, cruelly, To Preston then they came, in a Rout, in a Rout, To England then they went, as bold, as bold, |
To London as they went, on the Way, on the Way, They turned from that Place, and they ran, and they ran, To Scotland then they came, when they fly, when they fly, When Duke William does command, you must go, you must go; Tho 'Carlisle ye took by the way, by the way; The Pope and Prelacy, where they came, where they came, |
Text version by Robert Burns
Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear, give an ear,
Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear.
Ye Jacobites by name,
Your fautes I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear, you shall hear.
Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear.
What is Right, and What is Wrang, by the law, by the law?
What is Right and what is Wrang by the law?
What is Right, and what is Wrang?
A short sword, and a long,
A weak arm and a strand, for to draw, for to draw.
A weak arm and a strand, for to draw.
What makes heroic strife, famed afar, famed afar?
What makes heroic strife famed afar?
What makes heroic strife?
To whet th 'assassin's knife,
Or haunt a Parent's life, wi' bluidy war, wi 'bluidy war?
Or haunt a Parent's life, wi 'bluidy was?
Then let your schemes alone, in the state, in the state,
Then let your schemes alone in the state.
So let your schemes alone,
Adore the rising sun,
And leave a man undone, to his fate, to his fate.
And leave a man undone, to his fate.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ye Jacobites By Name , mysongbook.de, accessed on January 29, 2016
- ↑ Ye Jacobites by Name. More about this song , Iain Macdonald, bbc.co, uk, accessed January 29, 2016
- ↑ What Robert Burns A Jacobite? , The Calgary Burns Club (website), accessed January 29, 2016
- ↑ Audio CD 15 Years Hamburg Singing Competition of the Bundische Jugend (1978–1992) , Tho 1993 (track list), accessed on January 29, 2016
- ↑ Ed Cray: The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs . University of Illinois Press. In extracts in Google Books (English)
- ↑ See query at discogs.com , made on January 29, 2016
- ↑ Query in the iTunes Music Store on January 29, 2016