I liked this song so much that I did a little research on Sherrifmuir and read about the battle and so forth and then I found out that this is a poem/song by Robert Burnes. So I read up on Robbie too. Music, History, and Culture all rolled in one. AWESOME!
I LOVE when the Corries play double Bohdran. It's absolutely awesome and runs a chill up my spine every time. I'd love to learn to play one. Great version, this one.
The last of the Royal Stuarts in the Protestant succession, Queen Anne, died in 1714. Her successor was the Hanoverian King George I. In Scotland the antagonism to the succession of a German "princeling" who spoke little English was acute, especially among the Highlanders. King James III, from his exile in France, believed that the time was right to launch another Jacobite uprising.
@endora60 yes, i was stressed over the weekend and also right before the supper but i had it all learnt and it went down a storm. i'm not the greatest singer in the world but the song carries itself if you use an accent! the guess all clapped away and and was very well received! had a great time that night as a result!! the malts were aye flowing!
Was up there last week for a wee donder.When you look from up from the higher hills not much has changed more trees ,And that overpriced pub for posh folk.
It's nowhere the Ochils, it's the other side of Dunblane. As to the owner, he's the character who demolished an historic building and then asked for permission to do so - his excuse was that 'it was dangerous to children'. For the amount of children who ever got near it, see my previous comment.
as to the playing of the bodhran (the drums) it's less in the wrist than you'd think. you need to keep your wrist loose and fingers relatively tight. Think of shaking the paint out of a paintbrush: it's the same principle.
The original lyrics were written by John Barclay, and to be honest were a bit leaden. Burns took it on himself to polish them up a bit, and in effect completely rewrote them. The version the Corries sang is basically Robbie's, but a bit shorter.
@Kinlochbervie50 How'd your weekend go? Did you learn the song by Monday? Wonderful song, and the Corries rock, of course, but it sounds like it'd be incredibly difficult.
i am confused there are two songs by the Corries both called sherrifmuir depending which album you have, this one is definitely better though, its also been called The Sherramuir Fight
Many people attribute poems to Robert Burns that were in actually works by earlier poets. This song is one of the songs he "reworked ". Burns collected and compiled the folk music off Scotland and had no qualms against changing them as this was common practice at the time .A couple of volumes of these works were published at the time. Though without a doubt his best works were his own . No one had the political wit he had. He was a progressive thinker for his time and sexually promiscuous.Twelve known children by different women.He was married to another at the time some of these women were giving birth. Burns also was a staunch Scots Nationalist but did not believe in a bloody revolution as evidenced by his " Ye Jacobites by name ". Regardless of the life Robbie Burns lived and perhaps because of , he remains one the worlds greatest poets.
Thanks to your comment mate! The best things in the world come out of hard won failures! Scotland may be the underdog, but they`re the underdog the whole world cheers for!
