Ye Jacobites by Name

DESCRIPTION: "Ye Jacobites by name, Give an ear, give an ear, Ye Jacobites by name, Give an ear... Your faults I will proclaim, Your doctrines I maun blame." Jacobites are told to stop their schemes, to fight, to support the cause
AUTHOR: probably Robert Burns
EARLIEST DATE: 1792 (source: Kinsley)
KEYWORDS: Jacobite warning
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
Hogg-JacobiteRelicsOfScotlandVol1 34, "Ye Jacobites By Name" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacColl-PersonalChoice, p. 44, "Ye Jacobites by Name" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, JACBITE*
ADDITIONAL: James Kinsley, editor, Burns: Complete Poems and Songs (shorter edition, Oxford, 1969) #371, p. 507, "Ye Jacobites by Name" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5517
NOTES [56 words]: Maurice Lindsay, The Burns Encyclopedia, 1959, 1970; third edition, revised and enlarged, St. Martin's Press, 1980, p. 288, comments of this song, "Whatever his sentimental attachment to the Jacobites, Burns was well aware that theirs was a lost cause. In 'Ye Jacobites by name,' he advised, 'Then let your schemes alone,'" etc. - RBW
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