This is a remake of an old British bagpipe song. It was played while men fought in battles to keep moral up and to strike fear into the enemy. This will be on the new album that will come out soon. Hope you enjoy.
This songs not about the Jacobites, it's about the border revivers. All those place names ending in dale are spitting distance from where I live. They were called the marches and were a bloody and lawless land, every year we still ride those boundaries of the marches. Blue bonnets were used as people understood that they were worn by everyone as a general hat, the original wording by Sir Walter Scott was "steel bonnets", a reference to his ancestry of the border revivers.
I don't think it had anything to do with the Reivers as there is a mention of the king in the lyrics! My guess(guessing so not an expert!) would be its about the battle of Flodden which is practicallyon the Scottish/English border!
@@ianmatthews3041 The original lyrics actually refer to a Queen (I think the Corries were the first to switch it to 'King'). It's likely given the equipment listed and the reference to fighting for the Queen the song is actually set around the period of (or likely just after) the Uprising of the Northern Earls when the Scottish Reivers in particular took advantage of the chaos the uprising had caused across Northern England to indulge in a period of heavy cross-border raiding, ostensibly in the name of the by then imprisoned Queen Mary. Flodden would be an unlikely subject for the song. Somewhat (in)famously, the Reivers (fighting for both sides) ended up betraying and looting their employers (prompting the Bishop of Durham to complain to King Henry that their own borderers actually did more damage to the English force than the Scots had managed).
Aye, was just chatting to a Russian about how cunning the Brits were to incorporate the imagery of the separate nations to foster a unique British one. A perfect example. England shall many a day, tell of the bloody fray, When the blue bonnets came over the border.
Regimental March of the old King's Own Scottish Borderers... the regimental recruiting area covered Ettrick and Teviotdale... Eskdale and Liddesdale....... Reivers a'! XXV!
According to Wikipedia, All the Blue Bonnets Are Over the Border is the bagpipe tune you hear playing in the Eric Burdon & the Animal's song Sky Pilot. I've occasionally wondered about that for the past 50 years.
Bill you are right it is Scottish but nothing to do with the Jacobites. Exactly the opposite in fact. The tune is General Leslie's March to Longmarston Muir. Lesley was a general of the Scottish Covenating gvt's army which assisted the English parliamentarians against the Stuart monarch Charles 1. The words used were originally written by Scott in one of his novels and seem to pertain to an earlier period. The lyrics talk of the men of Ettrick and Teviotdale and Liddesdale marching to the border for their Queen. Borderers fighting for their Queen has nothing to do with the Jacobites. The Corries in their version change Queen to King which might make some people think the song is about the exiled King James - but it isn't.
allan connochie The uniform of the Jacobites was white shirts and blue bonnets, first off. Secondly, the song's third stanza goes, "England shall many a day, Tell of the bloody fray,When the blue bonnets came over the border."It's speaking of the blue bonnets wreaking havoc on the English country-side to make sure that Scotland isn't messed with again and that they remain independent and strong.
None of that changes the fact thought that the words were written by Walter Scott to describe in one of his novels a 16thC Scottish army invading England on behalf of their Queen who I imagine would be either Mary of her mother. Nothing to do with the Jacobites and predates the Jacobite period and likewise the tune is a Covenanting tune again yes a tune about invading England but on behalf of the Covenant not the monarch! And again it predates the Jacobite period. Just because the Corries either deliberately or unwittingly change the words to king and think or pretend it is a Jacobite song doesn't change the facts
That's very interesting. I live in Berlin. Not so far away is Wittstock, where one of the great battles of the 30 Year's War was fought. (The battlefield was excavated a few years ago.) Leslie was one of the commanders of a Scottish regiment in that battle, in the Swedish service. When I was there I wondered if some of my Ayrshire ancestors were buried there.
It would have been a pretty short rising if the best the Jacobites could muster were men armed with bucklers, lances and bows. The lyrics indicate a much earlier time, given Scott's focus more than likely the Rough Wooing of the 16th century.
Blue bonnet, white cockade...Bonnie Prince Charlie, curse of Scotland! All hail the soon-to-be Scottish Republic...religion and monarchy, curse of Scotland, remove them, result equality, freedom and happiness!
The british flag and this tune could not be more contrasting...This tune celebrates the Jacobite army that wore blue bonnets crossing into England to take on the British Government and throw the German King off the British throne.
This is most definitely NOT a British tune. It's 100% Scottish. The words are by Sir Walter Scott and set to a traditional Scottish tune. It is associated with the Jacobite uprising in the mid 1800's against the British forces.
The mid 1700's surely.And it was'nt against the British forces, but the Hanoverian forces.The 45, was a civil war, or possibly a dynastic war, as certainly there were more scots fighting against the young pretender than fighting for him. Even the Cameron of Lochiel had to be paid to enter the field.
