I'm trying to find out the source for the additional stanzas in Ossian;s (Tony Cuffe) version of "Will Ye Go to Flanders." The track is included on Dove Across the Water as well as the Best of Ossian. These are the stanzas Karine Polwart sings, which she attributes to John Faulkner, but I have listened to both recordings, and Faulkner's stanzas are quite different (and the composite version on the Digital Tradition differs from both except for the stanzas from Herd, below). I have Ewan MacColl's book as well, which gives only the stanzas from Herd. Additionally, the band Providence has recorded the stanzas from Herd plus those stanzas Cuffe and Polwart sing. They say the song was learned from Alistair Russell of Battlefield Band, with out further attribution.

Since I purchased the Ossian recording by legal download, I don't have their liner notes. Perhaps someone has them and could check to see whether they wrote the additional stanzas, or someone else. Perhaps they are verse that were added by oral tradition long ago.

[From Herd's 'Scots Songs', II, 23, 1776]

Will ye go to Flanders, my Mally-O?
Will ye go to Flanders, my bonnie Mally-O?
There we'll get wine and brandy,
And sack and sugar candy;
Will ye go to Flanders, my Mally-O?

Will ye go to Flanders, my Mally-O?
And see the chief commanders, my Mally-O?
You'll see the bullets fly,
and the soldiers how they die,
And the ladies loudly cry, my Mally-O
The tune is here:
http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/home.quicknet.nl/england/1995

Bruce Olson said that the earliest recorded version of the tune is 1743, Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, where the tune is identified by this title. He wondered whether there was any real evidence behind some folk's claim that the song traced to to 1706, or whether that was an educated guess. King William was fighting in Flanders as early as 1692. At any rate it's an old and beautiful song.

Thank you very much for your kind help!

Beth