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Freedom Come All Ye ( Live)

from This Side Of The Ocean by The Friends of Fiddler’s Green

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As Tam says in his introduction, this great song of Hamish Henderson's is a plea for a better, i.e. more egalitarian, world. The tune is "The Bloody Field of Flanders".

Glossary:
roch - rough
heelster gowdie - turning head over heels
ga -, make
rottans - rats
gallus - bold and confident
callants - youths
crousely - boldly
clachan - small village
hoodies - crows
barley bree - whisky
geans - wild cherries

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Roch the wind in the clear day's dawin'
Blaws the cloods heelster gowdy o'er the bay
But there's mair nor a roch win' blawin'
Ower the great glen o' the warld the day
It's a thocht that would gar oor rottans
A' thae rogues that gang gallus fresh and gay
Tak the road and seek ither loanins
For their ill ploys tae sport an' play

Nae mair will the bonnie callants
March tae war when oor braggarts crousely craw
And wee weans frae pit-heid and clachan
Mourn the ships sailin' doon the Broomielaw
Broken faimlies in this land we've inherit
errWill curse Scotland the Brave nae mair nae mair
Black and white ane til ither mairrit
Mak the vile barracks o' their masters bare

Oh come all ye at hame wi' freedom
Never heed whit the hoodies croak for doom;
In yer hoose a' the bairns o' Adam
Can find breid, barlev bree and painted room
When MacLean meets wi's freens in Springburn
A' the roses and geans will turn tae bloom
And the black boy frae yont Nyanga
Dings the fell gallows o' the burgers doon

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from This Side Of The Ocean, released December 28, 2021
Tam - Vocals • Grit - Northumbrian pipes • lan - Concertina • Grit - Guitar • Alistair - Melodeon • Laurence - Fiddle • David - Concertina • Jim - Whistle

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Laurence Stevenson Brighton, Ontario

Having been born in Scotland and moved to Canada in my high school years, my life has followed parallel (but musically related) paths.
A career in radio, firstly as a radio news tech then a sound effects guy to creator of the CBC Radio Experimental Audio Room and finally as an international award winning radio producer for the popular show, Outfront, has been tracked alongside a life as a fiddler. ... more

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