The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12515   Message #2211181
Posted By: eddie1
08-Dec-07 - 07:15 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Flower of Scotland (Roy Williamson)
Subject: RE: Origin: Flower of Scotland
Gee thanks for that Tom. Obviously I was a bit wrong in my understanding of "The Freedom Come-all-ye."

Presumably the Broomielaw referred to is on The Orange River and the Springburn where McClean meets with his friends is that well-known district in Jo'burg?

If you had stood beside me when a then 80 year-old Hamish Henderson sang that song, unaccompanied, to an audience of about 200,000 young people who had really come to hear rock and yet kept so quiet you could have heard the proverbial pin drop then you might have a different viewpoint

Eddie