Come O'er the Stream Charlie

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"Come O'er the Stream Charlie"
Song
LanguageScots
Published18th-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

  1. ↑ Collected Works of Al Jolson : Al Jolson.Internet Archive.February 20, 2004.
  2. ↑ One Hundred Songs of Scotland, Boston, Oliver Ditson & Co., 1858, p. 35
  3. ↑ Henderson, Thomas Finlayson, A Little Book of Scottish Verse, Methuen, 1899, p. 267
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ John Meier (1990). Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung im Auftrage des Deutschen Volksliedarchivs. Erich Schmidt Verlag.
  6. ↑ 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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