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Thread #4712   Message #44045
Posted By: Ewan McV
03-Nov-98 - 04:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Will Ye No Come Home Again
Subject: RE: Searching for a song
Indeed, Will Ye No Come Back Again was written some 60 years after the 1745 Rising by Baroness Nairne of Gask. She was I suppose a 'real Jacobite' of the same ilk as Robert Burns, i'.e. there was a sentimental attachment to the Jacobite cause, although Burns was a dangerous radical and Baroness Nairne probably a High Tory (very conservative). Still, the High Tories protected Burns on account of his fine poetry or he would have ended up as a transported convict.