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♫ Scottish Music - Granny's Heilan' Hame ♫ LYRICS

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A song about another Highland lad who left the thatched cottage and his Grandmother in the Highland hills to seek his fortune in another part of the world. In this case it was a Sandy Macfarlane from Embo in Sutherland who wrote it because he was homesick
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♫ Scottish Music - Highland Widow's Lament ♫ LYRICS

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Although this version of the song refers to Charles Edward Stewart who led the Jacobite Uprising in 1745, an earlier version was published around 1715. When Robert Burns was collecting old Scottish songs his notes suggested that the ballad was dealing wit
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♫ Scottish Music - Scots Wha Hae ♫ LYRICS

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Scots Wha Hae is a patriotic song of Scotland which served for centuries as an unofficial national anthem of the country, but has lately been largely supplanted by Scotland the Brave and Flower of Scotland. The lyrics were written by Robert Burns in 1793,
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♫ Scottish Music - Ye Jacobites By Name ♫

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The poet Robert Burns lived not long after the Jacobite Uprising of 1745/46. Following the conflict, many songs were written, usually in support of the Jacobite cause. But a few were written putting the government/Hanoverian point of view. When Burns was
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♫ The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2012 ♫

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The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is an annual series of Military tattoos performed by British Armed Forces, Commonwealth and International military bands and display teams on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh. The eve