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Thread #3049   Message #14808
Posted By: Bruce
15-Oct-97 - 02:13 PM
Thread Name: Eppie Morie: What does it all mean?
Subject: RE: Eppie Morie: What does it all mean?
"Came ye o'er from France" is in James Hogg's 'Jacobite Relics', I, p. 87, 1819 (available as reprint from AMS Press). In his notes Hogg identified a few of the characters, but admitted he couldn't figure out all of them, so you are not alone.

Ewan MacColl sang it on Folkways FW 8756 (re-released in Great Britain on a different label), and in the notes on the accompanying brochure most of the Scots vernacular is translated.