Come O'er the Stream Charlie
| "Come O'er the Stream Charlie" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| Published | 18th-century[1] |
| Genre | Revolutionary song |
"Come O'er the Stream Charlie" (aka "MacLean's Welcome") is a Scottish song whose theme is the welcome the Young Pretender would receive prior to the Jacobite rising of 1745. The words are attributed to James Hogg,[2] who said he adapted it from a Gaelic song.[3] It appears in Hogg's 1821 Jacobite Relics.[4]
Written well after the events it commemorates, it is not a genuine Jacobite song, as is the case with many others now considered in the "classic canon of Jacobite songs,"[5] most of which were songs "composed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but were passed off as contemporary products of the Jacobite risings."[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Collected Works of Al Jolson : Al Jolson.Internet Archive.February 20, 2004.
- ^ One Hundred Songs of Scotland, Boston, Oliver Ditson & Co., 1858, p. 35
- ^ Henderson, Thomas Finlayson, A Little Book of Scottish Verse, Methuen, 1899, p. 267
- ^ Hogg, James. The Jacobite Relics of Scotland: Being the Songs, Airs, and Legends, of the Adherents to the House of Stuart, Volume 2, William Blackwood, 1821, p. 90
- ^ John Meier (1990). Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung im Auftrage des Deutschen Volksliedarchivs. Erich Schmidt Verlag.
- ^ Murray, Alan V. (1990). "Rev. of William Donaldson, The Jacobite Song. Political Myth and National Identity". Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung. 35: 186–87. doi:10.2307/848236. JSTOR 848236.
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