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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 25, 2011 18:07:08 GMT
Hope that you'll all be tucking into haggis tonight to commemorate our national bard.
What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro' many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor's wages.
The English steel we could disdain,
Secure in valour's station;
But English gold has been our bane-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
The parcel of rogues are the Scots landed gentry who signed the 1707 incidentally; not the Engilsh.
Remember, of course, that freedom an' whisky gang thegither!
Happy Burns night .. and no I'm not suggesting you play with matches.
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, and then for ever!
Catcha!
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Post by aubrey on Jan 25, 2011 21:20:05 GMT
I've got that, I think, sung by Dick Gaughan's group, is it?
I'll have some whisky, Riot (it'll make a nice change).
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Post by jean on Jan 25, 2011 21:56:08 GMT
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then for ever! That was Alex Salmond's first Desert Island Disc. It's about six minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00xgs41/Desert_Island_Discs_Alex_SalmondI can't hear the name of the singer properly, and I can't find anything on YouTube, so catch this while the BBC lets you. And happy Burns Night, Riot. I promise not to mention Jimmy Shand. |
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Post by Weyland on Jan 25, 2011 22:17:25 GMT
I can't hear the name of the singer properly, and I can't find anything on YouTube, so catch this while the BBC lets you. It's on the Radio-4 pages: Anne Lorne Gillies — Ae Fond Kiss
Composer: Trad. Adapted by Anne Lorne Gillies /arr. D Murricane
Milestone, LochshoreNight, night. |
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Post by everso on Jan 25, 2011 23:52:12 GMT
Didn't think you believed in all that stuff, Riot.
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Post by housesparrow on Jan 26, 2011 8:36:01 GMT
I have the vinyl of the Steeleye Span "Parcel of Rogues" album:
Here is "Rogues in a Nation"
I've a bit of Scot in my pedigree but no-one has traced it back to 1707 so I'll remain in blissful ignorance of whether one of them was among the "landed gentry" who did the dirty.
However an Irish ancestor who came to England in the 19th century did pay someone to trace his family tree, and the researcher eventually advised him "not to take it any further". We still speculate.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 26, 2011 17:40:26 GMT
Didn't think you believed in all that stuff, Riot. Eh? It's not a matter of belief. Robert Burns existed - he's not some legendary or imaginary character. He did write poems. Some are good. He is the national bard of Scotland. I have spoken at many Burns Suppers over the years (including sharing the stage with Alex salmond.) |
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Post by Weyland on Jan 26, 2011 17:51:31 GMT
Curs'd be the man, the poorest wretch in life,
The crouching vassal to the tyrant wife!
Who has no will but by her high permission;
Who has not sixpence but in her possession;
Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell;
Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell!
Were such a wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart:
I'd charm her with the magic of a switch,
I'd kiss her maids, and kick the perverse bitch.
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Post by aubrey on Jan 27, 2011 10:33:17 GMT
She believes in anything that involves whisky.
Five hand Reel!! I remembered!
We used to do an instrumental version of the first first part of this:
Bloody knackering, it was.
Another one:
This is a Youtube comment:
According to Dick Gaughan's web page there is some confusion about who actually owns those recordings. Dick Gaughan and the band have never received a penny in royalties for even the official copies of any of the Five Hand Reel recordings. More recent addition to the above. Even thouigh there is a compilation of the first 3 FHR albums the band still does not get paid any royalties from sales. I have always thought this is the best recording of this song.
Stuff like this should be remembered when record companies use the plight of artists in their anti-piracy propaganda. Also some of them getting fined last week for not paying royalties for the performers on compilation albums.
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