Robert Burns - Ye Jacobites By Name [Ian Bruce] - Video
PUBLISHED:  Dec 22, 2011
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Following Info taken from Wikipedia (I know, the Lazy way out):

"Ye Jacobites by Name" is a traditional Scottish folk song which goes back to the Jacobite Risings in Scotland (1688--1746). While the original version simply attacked the Jacobites from a contemporaneous Whig point of view [this song is NOT this version, but the Robert Burns version], Robert Burns rewrote it in around 1791 to give a version with a more general, humanist anti-war outlook. This version, Robert Burns version, is the version that most people know today.

Lyrics, in original Scots form:

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.
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