1297 - a "Scottish Republican Army"?????

Rather strange concept for those days I would have thought. But there again one would have to be a complete and utter idiot to look for actual history in folk song, even when written with the advantage of 20x20 hindsight.

Some songwriters can do it, like Brian McNeill and Robin Laing, others, like the nyaff gaffer, can't.

"From Edinburgh, Stirling and Falkirk,
From Inverness to Elderslie,
His spirit is calling for justice,
And commands us to set ourselves free.
And when once again we do battle
For Wallace against foreign scum,
With no fear of betrayal to the Saxon
Let them come! Let them come! Let them come!"

I mean really in this day and age - Who needs it? The song itself is totally negative and the GUEST postings of the 27th and 28th that Gallus Moll refers to only express an opinion.