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27 Aug 15 - 01:40 PM (#3733553) Subject: Folklore: The Three Healths From: GUEST,Roberto I'd title to know something about the political allusions in the jacobite song The Three Healths (recorded ny The Tannahill Weavers in Leaving St. Kilda e by Barbara Dickson in The Fate O' Charlie). Thank you. Roberto |
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27 Aug 15 - 09:28 PM (#3733622) Subject: RE: Folklore: The Three Healths From: GUEST,# The following is from http://www.tannahillweavers.com/lyrics/1176lyr7.htm The Three Healths Traditional, arranged by the Tannahill Weavers Of all the Jacobite songs on the album, this, being a drinking song, is by far the most fun. It is chock full of allusions to the state of political affairs at the end of the first rising, 1689-90. LYRICS: To ane king and nae king, ane uncle and father To him that's all these yet allowed to be neither Come push it aboot while the bottle's our standard If you'd know what I mean it's a health to our landlord To ane queen and nae queen, ane aunt and nae mother Come boys let us cheerfully drink off another And now to be honest we'll stick by our faith sir And stand by our landlord as long as we've breath sir To ane prince and nae prince, ane son and nae bastard Beshrew him that say it, a lie that is fostered God bless them all three, we'll conclude with this one sir Here's a health to our landlord, his wife and his son, sir To our monarch's return one more we'll advance boys We've one that's in Flanders, the other's in France boys Then aboot with the health, let him come let him come then Send the wan into England, and both are at home then |
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28 Aug 15 - 12:30 AM (#3733637) Subject: RE: Folklore: The Three Healths From: michaelr Come all you brave fellows, wherever you've been, Let us drink to the health of our King and our Queen, And another good health to the girls that we know, And a third in remembrance of great Admiral Benbow. |
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28 Aug 15 - 04:09 AM (#3733654) Subject: RE: Folklore: The Three Healths From: GUEST,AR I believe the song can be found in Hogg's 'Jacobite Relics' - perhaps that text will provide more contextual information. |
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28 Aug 15 - 06:09 AM (#3733685) Subject: RE: Folklore: The Three Healths From: GUEST,Reinhard Yes, AR, Dick Gaughan writes in his online song archive "Taken from 'The Jacobite Relics of Scotland' Vol 1 by James Hogg. From the 1715 attempt to restore the Stewart dynasty." His lyrics are basically the same as the Tannahill Weavers' ones except for being less anglicised. |
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29 Aug 15 - 12:41 PM (#3733979) Subject: RE: Folklore: The Three Healths From: GUEST from Roberto: thank you - I'll try to see Hogg's - I think the three the healths are to are James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender; Maria Clementina Sobieska, his wife; Charles Edward Stuart, later to be known as the Young Pretender/Bonnie Prince Charlie. |