Whigs Are A'Rinnin', The

DESCRIPTION: "Saw ye Holyrood? Saw ye him there? Saw ye him there? Saw ye him sittin' In his muckle chair? For the Whigs are a' rinnin' Rin, rin, rinnin', For the Whigs are a' rinnin' Fast awa' hame"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Greig/Duncan1)
KEYWORDS: nonballad political Jacobites
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan1 137, "The Whigs Are A'Rinnin'" (1 fragment)
Roud #5818
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "We're a' Noddin'" [i. e. presumably "We're All Nodding"] (tune according to Greig/Duncan1)
NOTES [102 words]: The current description is all of the Greig/Duncan1 fragment.
Greig/Duncan1: "Holyrood is the royal palace in Edinburgh." - BS
According to McLynn: Frank McLynn, Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart, 1988 (I use the 1991 Oxford paperback edition), p. xix, the one real Jacobite occupation of Edinburgh came during the 1745 rebellion, The Jacobites took Edinburgh of September 17, 1745. Clennell Wilkinson Bonnie Prince Charlie, (Lippincott, no copyright listed but after 1932), p. 93, says that Charles went to Holyrood almost at once. So the likeliest date for this song, by far, is September 1745. - RBW
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