Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on March 17th 2003 by tufbo.
This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Ye Jacobites
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cmaj
E2| A3/2 B/2 AG E2 EE| c2 BA B3 G| A3/2 B/2 AG E2 E3/2 ^G/2| A6A-B|\
c3/2 d/2 ef g3f/2-e/2| dc BA G2c-d| eA BA E3/2- D/2 E^G| A6||
I think the key should be Amin.
# Posted on March 17th 2003 by lazyhound
Song
I know this tune as a song. The Dutch band Rapalje sings it with only a bodhran to back them up.
# Posted on January 20th 2005 by Luinthon
This is a song by Rabbie Burns, "Ye Jacobites by name"
# Posted on December 13th 2005 by Adrian Stewart
Lyrics to "Ye Jacobites by Name"
Indeed, a poem by Rabbie Burns. His original text, as taken from robertburns.org, is as follows.
"Ye Jacobites by Name"
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.
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 lang,
A weak arm and a strang, 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 hunt a Parent's life, wi' bluidy war?
Then let your schemes alone, in the state, in the state,
Then let your schemes alone in the state.
Then let your schemes alone,
Adore the rising sun,
And leave a man undone, to his fate.
1791
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by bennmorland