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Songs (and documentaries) of the Jacobite Rebellions (1688-1746)

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The Jacobite risings were a series of uprisings, rebellions, and wars in Great Britain and Ireland occurring between 1688 and 1746. The uprisings had the aim of returning James VII of Scotland and II of England, and later his descendants of the House of Stuart, to the throne of Great Britain after they had been deposed by Parliament during the Glorious Revolution. The series of conflicts takes its name from Jacobitism, from Jacobus, the Latin form of James.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_risings

Scottish:

"Up and Waur then A' Willie"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtWqAGnDFJU

Lyrics:

http://www.hazelwhyte.com/Scottish_Music/Up_And_Waur_Them_Au_Willie.html


Atholl Gathering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsyiKF_XkHc


Lyrics:

http://www.tannahillweavers.com/lyrics/4454lyL6.htm


British:


"Here we go men; it's over the hills and far away":


Over The Hills And Far Away

"Over the Hills and Far Away" is a traditional English song, dating back to at least the late 17th century. One version was published in Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy; a very different one appeared in George Farquhar's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer. A version also appears in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera of 1728 . . .

The nursery rhyme "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" mentions a piper who knows only one tune, this one. Early versions of this, known as "The distracted Jockey's Lamentations", may have been written (but not included) in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners (1698):

Tommy was a Piper's Son,
And fell in love when he was young;
But all the Tunes that he could play,
Was, o'er the Hills, and far away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Hills_and_Far_Away_(traditional_song)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEaRiGZBmw0
 
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