Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Will ye go tae Flanders?'
From: radriano
Date: 01 Jun 00 - 11:03 AM

As far as I know, Will Ye Go to Flanders is an anti-recruitment song. I first heard it on the album Broken hearted I'll wander by Dolores Keane and John Faulkner. Here's what their liner notes say. John Faulkner says he learned the song from Ewan MacColl, who sang two verses of it on an old record. John wrote two additional verses to it. According the Peter Hall in Aberdeen, the original stanzas date back to the 1st Duke of Marlborough's campaign in Flanders in 1706.

radriano

Additional verses by John Faulkener

Will ye go to Flanders, my Mally-o
Will ye go to Flanders, my bonny Mally-o
Ye'll see the plaidies furlin'
And hear the pipies skirlin'
Will ye go to Flanders, my Mally-o

Will ye go to Flanders, my Mally-o
Alang wi' all the Hielanders, my bonny Mally-o
Ye'll hear the captain callin'
Ye'll see the surgeon thrallin'
And the sodgers how they're fallin' my Mally-o