Hi Tom

Was just wondering - would you use the same tune as 'The Skye Boat Song' for your version?
If so - which parts would the chorus differentiation be attached to?

Loved the precis of BPC's downfall and the consequences involving Cumberland and transportation. Personally I reckon it's a pretty bloody accurate version of what happened. If you read most of the accounts - that's pretty much how it all panned out in the end. The Irishman Sullivan (O'Sullivan in some accounts) was apparently responsible for the disastrous setup at Culloden - he got away as well and ended up receiving a Papal dispensation and a gift of title and lands from Rome in a personal meeting with the Pope: Meanwhile all those he screwed with his pathetic military "tactics" got massacred, hunted down and transported. Mind yoy - his was probably the final stuff-up in a long line of stuff-ups that ended the campaign. If the popular accounts are to be believed; all went well until the Jacobites were within striking distance of London and Charlie of the throne itself when the chiefs began to get 'jittery' and Charlie "lost his bottle" and ran away!

As you say - we weren't there, so it's left to the victors and the disillusioned to tell the story.

Either way; Culloden is a VERY sad place to visit. I spent 2 and a half hours walking the moors on a visit there in '05 and most of that time I was saddened to the point of tears at the tragedy that occurred there.

The earthen dykes that Murray suggested be pulled down and which Sullivan ordered to be left alone are still there giving mute evidence of the latter's incompetence in that the English did exactly what Murray SAID they would do - hid behind them and as the Clans charged, rose up and caught them in a killing, deadly enfillade.

Muttley