Robert Burns the voice of the everyday common man and that's why he became a national legend. Apparently, a publisher in London told Burns to write in Standard English but Burns refused because that's was not the voice of a Scot from Ayershire. Legend.
My Late beloved Nana and Grandad both loved Rabbie Burns and this song they would have loved this version. I very much hope I see Scottish Independence in my lifetime for them and good ol Rabbie 🏴💛
Robert Burns was a Human Being! He saw the ridiculous bollocks of the so-called Class Divide. He used his art to enlighten people and encouraged them to love one another. ❤️
He also saw the "bollocks" of nationalist sectarianism (the cause of two world wars and many smaller ones) - he would now be classed a socialist and INTERNATIONALIST, as summed up in the final sentence, "That man to man the world o'er, shall brothers be for a' that".
Sorry, love, but he was very much a Scot. And here are his words on that: "Alas, I have often said to myself what are the boasted advantages which my country reaps from a certain Union that counterbalances the annihilation of her Independence, and even her name!" (Letter to Mrs. Dunlap 10 April 1790) Or do all men have to be in the same nation in order to be brothers? He certainly did not think so. He considered those in struggling in France and other nations to be his brothers (and sisters) but that HARDLY meant he wanted France run by the cabal at Westminster. Trying to push your British nationalism onto Burns doesn't mean that he shared it. And Stewart Nicol whom you tried so lamely to insult was correct. As Burns's decrying of 'yon birkie called a lord' and the rest of the song shows, the song was indeed a condemnation of the class divide that is part and parcel of the United Kingdom.
Jr Tomlin I am totally in agreement with you. Since the age of 14 when I understood exactly what the history behind the United Kingdom was, I have been totally committed to the break up of the Union of the Crowns. I am now 65, I have hoped for and seen monumental events such as Nelson Mandela's triumph. I now plan to live long enough to see SCOTLAND leave the ridiculous U.K. (The platform for U.S. Interference in Europe) ALBA GO BRACH
Beautiful performance! I am quite fascinated by the Scottish melody from Robert Burns. I can't love more his life attitude. Poverty is not a shame but the key to one's true life.
I lived in Scotland for 6 year, and I miss the "live and let live" society that Burns put forward 300 years ago. The great thing is, his words made their mark. Thankfully I had that experience before moving back to the small-minded attitude of rural America.
Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord, Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that; Tho' hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that: For a' that, an' a' that, His ribband, star, an' a' that: The man o' independent mind He looks an' laughs at a' that. ......... My absolute favourite Burns verse... Well done Paolo for this version...
Robbie Burns had a great heart, and gave us truth and beauty. Paolo Nutini fulfills the spirit of the song. Let us all fulfill the spirit of this song. Happy New Year, Happy 2015, Happy Promise of the Future.
Paulo has caught the real meaning of Burns words here, he is more Scottish than some of the traitors who voted to remain under the English Westmonster BOOT.
theresnowhiskey Totally agree. However, are you happy that Scotland after voting to remain, can be taken out of the European Union by an unelected leader in Westminster? As long as Scotland is part of the U.K. the numbers dictate that whatever Scotland wants is immaterial as long as they are Ruled from London. Remember, Scots voted Socialist at every election since 1945 then got what England wanted, including Heath, Thatcher and Cameron.
theresnowhiskey Totally agree. However, are you happy that Scotland after voting to remain, can be taken out of the European Union by an unelected leader in Westminster? As long as Scotland is part of the U.K. the numbers dictate that whatever Scotland wants is immaterial as long as they are Ruled from London. Remember, Scots voted Socialist at every election since 1945 then got what England wanted, including Heath, Thatcher and Cameron.
Isn't this a song/ poem about equality,fraternity and the brotherhood of man not Scots nationalism.Trust some SNP type evoke this. That's one of many reasons the SNP are tanking
@@keithratcliffe2235 This is a song about equality yes. But you can’t speak about Rabbie Burns without independence the man was a fervent Scottish independence supporter and rightly so 🏴🏴
This is not only about Scotland - it is about what Burns believed in - a World Brotherhood of Humanity with no man or woman considered better than another
for the past several weeks, right before heading off to bed, i listen & watch this video & the video's of Amy Macdonald doing her new song "Pride" & singing "Flower of Scotland". Sometimes I toss in at least one version of "Caledonia" for good measure, either the original by Dougie Maclean or Amy or Paolo's version. I've been missing my old home in the highlands, something awful!
I started to listen to this and thought oh I didnt really like paolo Nutinis singing voice but theres something brilliant and inspiring about his rendition of this song
Same here, not much of a Paulo Nutini fan and I'm not especially fond of his voice even when singing this, but I still love this. I think it's because it shows that the song is still relevant. Centuries ago when it was written it gave voice to the hope of a more equal future. And today it still summarises the hopes that millions have for the future.
Love it. Have to look up the lyrics. He sounds like this kid from Northern England. Sat on a train with him for a couple hours. Understood 20% of what he was saying. Song and style deserves a deeper dive.
@ kiddznitch, thank you so much for the upload, I remember when I first heard this song in my English class, it was awesome, this is one of my favs thanks again
you do realise Burns was a Unionist? he was both a tax man for the monarchy and joined a british reigment as a volunteer. also he wrote "Be Britain Still to Britain true, among ourselfs united. for never but by British hauns may British wrongs be righted"
WanBaw McGraw ... you do know burns was a unionist? i'm just asking why you feel the need to post a nationalist comment on a song written by a man who wrote: "Be Britain still, to Britain true, Amang ourselves united; For never but by British hands, Maun British wrangs be righted!" as well as being buried in his British military uniform with his coffin draped in a union jack. are you arrogant of history, or just stupid?
Jaymes Harris I'm just going answer you bit by bit here. Burn's views on nationalism don't concern me. This song simply paints the picture of a better Scotland and a better world and that is going to obviously be something that resonates among Yes Voters as they want Scotland to change and become (what in their view would be) a better Scotland. I was making a statement concerning my own political beliefs. I wasn't trying to give a history lesson so you telling me all these facts is a bit of a waste of time. Btw, bit rich of you to be calling someone stupid when you ask "are you arrogant of history". You want to take another bash at that? I'll go ahead and assume you were attempting to say "are you ignorant of history or just stupid". And I feel like I have answered your question. So why don't you get off your fucking high horse you arrogant prick and stop taking issue with other people's opinions that don't concern you.
WanBaw McGraw so your argument is this song, because of its content, resonates more with YES voters? Completely neglecting the fact that the song was written by a unionist. Just because people voted yes does not mean they belive in this socialistic rhetoric. Also you made a public comment on a well viewed video in which you attempted to address "yes voters", meaning you were looking for some sort of support. So if you voice your opinions in this matter then yes I do have the right to make a reply. Nationalists share something in common with the republicans of America, they both claim they love to express there rights, but as someone not of their opinion voices theres then suddenly they are narcissistic or they opinions invalid. The fact remains that this song was a song written to encourage social change accros the UK and is not the place to spout your nationalistic noncence when the writer of the song thouroughly disagreed with it!!!
Jaymes Harris Oh so now the notion of equality is socialist rhetoric? Pull your head out of your arse and wake the fuck up. Also, did I say anything about it resonating MORE with Yes voters. I said it resonates with Yes Voters. I didn't say anything about you not having the right to respond to me. I just meant that you look like a bit of a prick picking an arguement over youtube when I was just making a harmless comment. Typical No Voter. Instead of having the humility to look at the situation objectively, you simply generalize the entire Yes Campaign into 'nationalistic nonsense. Seriously; when are people like you going to grow up.
The 19th century American freethinker Robert Ingersoll admired Robert Burns and said if there was a God he would rather face him as the man who wrote "For A' that" than as a hypocritical "pious" man.
Found out my old comment was censored. Don't even remember what it was about. Кто честной бедности своей стыдится, и все прочее, тот самый жалкий из людей, трусливый раб, и прочее :) Lousy agenda servants may ban or try to wipe out words of a simple man, it doesn't matter. Great poem, the best performance of it. Unfortunately unavailable in spotify like services.
Glorious. Nutini has done this song in the right spirit, the workers’ solidarity spirit that Burns so clearly intended. A commenter wrote that this song is not so much about class struggle as about the “deeper” them of “the man of independent mind.” The commenter, it seems, is trying to drag Burns down to a tinsel show ruling-class cliché. In so doing, he has poorly modeled the “man of independent mind”: He and his peas-in-a-pod fellow “individualists” are predictably, drearily obedient to the ruling ideas of the ruling class. (Other interpreters, just as implausibly, have claimed that by the phrase “the world o’er” Burns meant to invoke an Otherworld. We who put no stake in the obsequious “individualism” of neoliberals, look and laugh at a’ that.) The class struggle is a deep as the ocean-nobody understands this better than the capitalist tyrants whom Burns attack. As deep as the ocean, and--if you are alive for a’ that-- as close as your every breath. This is a communist song, straight-up.
Burns was writting in Britain the recent aftermath of the French Revolution. He was the darling of the Edinburgh Elitie, largely because he didn't challenge their idea of the ploughman sent from heaven (noble savage narrative, but adapted for the lowland farmers). Paolo omits the most radical (At the time) verse (probably because it is lyrically uninteresting to modern audiences), which describes how petulant princes can confer ranks like Duke on people, but honest folk can remain honest by resisting such influences, and independently minded folk laugh at it. This bordered on sedition - it was as close as Burns could come to saying 'The French Revolution was a reasonable idea' without getting hanged. The Radical movement had gained traction, become a threat to the established order in Britain, and Burns wrote a song about the universal brotherhood of man ... it was a time of both optimism and danger, and Burns made the ballsy step of publicly stating where his conscience lay.
