Singing Scotland's Future and Past

John Robertson

Inspired by The Myth of the Jacobite Clans by Murray Pittock, Edinburgh University Press

Song at:

https://suno.com/s/yepr5GfbXiaDdugq

Apologies for the AI Scots accent.

Lyrics

We know what you’ve been told at the school

About the bonny prince and his wild highlanders

Their catholic beliefs wild charges and yells

But that was only part of the story that was

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

We were there to put end to the evil Union

We were there for our Scotland the Brave

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

While the wild charges often broke their will                    

Set them running screaming, falling in fear

But we were trained in all the arts of war

And armed with the very same cannon

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

We were there to put end to the evil Union

We were there for our  Scotland the Brave

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

We caught them out at Prestonpans but

When we got to Culloden we were too few

Their many horsemen cut our gunners down

And our hopes for a free Caledonia died

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

We were there to put end to the evil Union

We were there for our Scotland the Brave

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

In the days that followed we were undone

Every village burned and endless killing

Denied all our ancient ways and words

We were cleared from the land into exile

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

We were there to put end to the evil Union

We were there for our Scotland the Brave

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

Red coat garrisons in a hundred places

Thousands forced out to the far colonies

Young men forced onto front lines to die

An end to us, a bloody final end to us

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

We were there to put end to the evil Union

We were there for our Scotland the Brave

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way

We were there to put end to the evil Union

We were there for our Scotland the Brave

Charlie was not my darling no bloody way