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"Cam' Ye by Atholl" is a Scottish Jacobite folk song. The words were written by James Hogg and it is traditionally sung to a tune by Neil Gow, Junior, the son of Nathaniel Gow. The song, which celebrates the Jacobite rising of 1745, takes the form of a "gathering song" to recruit Jacobites and makes reference to many of the places and people associated with the rebellion.
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- ↑ Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, volume 4 (1883)
- ↑ Drummond, Andrew (2020), A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to Build a Railway, Birlinn, pp. 162 & 163
- ↑ "Pioneering landowner Paul van Vlissingen dies at 65". The Herald. 23 August 2006. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ↑ Hogg, James (1869). The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd: Tales and Sketches, Blackie and Son, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, pp. 91 - 98
