The Corries - Come O'er The Stream Charlie

[@BringbacktheRAT]

Proud to be a MacLean. Three hundred and ten for the Bonnie Prince

[@scarsimpso2]

This song is part of my childhood. First band I ever saw play was The Corries and they gave me a lasting love of 2 things; folk music and my country! Yes they sang about our past but they also sang about our present and our future. The message I always got was that the future is in the hand of our children. I live my life by that message - maybe we all should!

[@MikeMcCall-d9w]

This makes me feel connected to my Scottish homeland! Posted by Michael McCall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@malcolmmcneill5403]

Fantastic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Snadd1987]

they'll arrange on the heather wi' baynet and feather strong arms and broad claymores three hundred an ten!! BRILLIANT!

[@Meanbeanmachine1988]

Never heard of the corries before and probably would have never heard them again if it wasn't for the videos you posted dressedindecay. Thanks for that.

[@jzjamie]

I think its a very accurute song and performence and great partnership great song out of 10 I would probarly give it a 10 for is performence and its very nice teamwork thanks for that!!!

[@pipes0987]

No matching shirts, -3 points. ha kidding.

[@SavedandSound]

Gorgeous. Love the Corries! Thanks for posting.

[@DavidDrinkell]

55%! So glad they're staying!

[@montrevant]

Gotta love the Bodhrons! Thanks for posting this..

[@RayMainBagpiper]

What a wonderfull resource! Being a novis piper in the U.S., this is the only chance I've had to actually hear the words to the music. Thanks for posting all of these vids!

[@pipes0987]

how's the piping going brother

[@RayMainBagpiper]

@@pipes0987 I've been going through tribulations for the last year and a half, everything has been a "test" of my will. I've made some changes to put myself into a better place of mind for the next year. Thanks for asking.

[@REG2477]

We will never surrender prosperity to scotland and no union! - Charles Edward Stuart - 1745

[@buttonpuncher]

RW, I suspect I've had a "senior moment". Caroline Bingham's book about the family is entitled "The Stewart Kingdom of Scotland 1371 - 1603. The edition I have was published by Barnes & Noble in 1995, but it was copyrighted in 1974. Sorry about that, but you're evidently correct.

[@aryastark3148]

This is so good. Was just reading about the Jacobite uprising because... of Wolfe Island in Canada which was named after James Wolfe, the young English general who first gained recognition for his role in suppressing the Jacobite uprising of Bonnie Prince Charlie. James Wolfe then went on to sail up the river St Laurent to capture Quebec city from the French. Though he died there, it led to the English capture of Montreal as well, losing the French their control over Canada. And this is why most of Canada is anglo. Lose myself on wikipedia because a friend went to Wolfe Island over the weekend and somehow find my way to another trad folklore song to learn and another lovely group to listen.

[@georgecampbell5281]

When Wolfe first heard of Highlanders joining the British army, he okayed it, his famous quote being "and no great mischief if they fall." Over the campaign in Canada, his opinion changed completely and was then quoted as saying his Highland regiments had provided him with "the finest corps of officers I have ever known." On the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, he chose to stand among the Fraser Highlanders and died in the arms of one of their segeants after learning the French had been trashed. Oh, and the story of Culloden is a lie. Sure, Cumberland won, but only by a fraction, as an event before the battle put the fear of death in him and caused him to pull back the entire right wing of his army. That is the explanation for the age old mystery of why those Jacobites who did attack, swerved to their right. My father gave me the details which had been handed down from our ancestor who was there, but it is only recently I found the corroboration I needed to start writing my book

[@Frillar]

@vanthedarkside I think you misunderstand the song. The song is about the Jacobite rebellion. The author of the song is inviting bonnie prince Charlie, leader of the Jacobite rebellion, for festivities. He's not inviting him for a fight.

[@danielmenzies7421]

its brilliant oh deffin i love the the corries wen they were together from danny

[@barriemaclean6872]

I asked a piper to play this & she had never heard of it ! So I hope the next wedding she will ken it

[@falkirkfcfan1]

very good song

[@TheRedWizzard]

Pretty sure there were the originall Scottish Stewarts, and then some French ones affecting the name, spelling it Stuart. I have no sources to back this up though, it's just a vague memory.

[@alistairthompson8311]

I'm pretty sure you're bang on. Mary, Queen of Scots was exiled in France for a number of years from early in her childhood, during which time she married the dauphin. I think she changed the spelling to make it easier for the French to understand. There were also other Stewarts who were related to the Royal House and made successful military careers in France. They were rewarded for their services with French land and titles, probably to encourage them to stay in France, and in some cases it worked. I suspect they probably adopted the French spelling as well.

[@BillDFC]

@Druworos It was the English parliament who invited Dutch William to accept the throne of Britain.Scotland was not even considered.

[@ulsterstan]

GREAT THE BEST.

[@1976c-b1x]

superb song

[@veriasvincit]

True there is no hard evidence of what would have happened if the rebellion was successful. However you have to consider a couple of things. Firstly James the vii/ii was king of Britain and this was the title that the old and young pretender wished to reclaim. secondly someone who gains a powerbase, by human nature, is unlikely to weaken that powerbase so considerably.

[@vanthedarkside]

This is easily one of the most bad-ass Scottish songs ever. It basically boils down to "Bring it, bitch!"

[@veriasvincit]

the hanoverian line was another branch of the stuart line. after james the 2 was voted out by parliament they went to the next of the stuart line mary stuart who was married to another stuart william of orange then there was anne who was also a stuart and then george whos mother was also a stuart

[@Nick7157]

like the beat to this one

[@sapien82]

check oot "bonnie blue bonnnets" another drum arrangement

[@sirnathannoble4146]

To our King across the water!!! Orangemen hear me roar!!!!

[@acerb4566]

Honor to "Thee" Clan MacClean! GRR!

[@acerb4566]

I make brave Boudicca an honorary Highland Queen! What she did to Rome makes me happy! They squirmed like bunnies in a foxes jaws!! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Honor the brave Iceni Tribe!! GRR!!

[@silverarrowslk]

acerb45666555 She wasn’t a Highlander but instead from a Southern English tribe

[@tmikesecrist3]

I agree I have always been told on how my famly was once scotish nobleaty, we are not clear on what land or titles we held, but some of my bed time stories where how brave members of my famly shielded queen Mary Sturet as she was forced to flee scotland and sought refuge with her cousen elizabith tutter and got her head cut off and had her crown stolen which should have gone to her son.

[@acerb4566]

But there are songs for Montrose! And The Bonnie Dundee!

[@abrhamgebeyehu933]

Come o'er the stream Charlie, dear Charlie, brave Charlie Come o'er the stream Charlie, and dine wi MacLean And though ye be weary, we'll mak yer heart cheery And welcome oor Charlie and his loyal train We'll bring doon the red steer, we'll bring doon the black steer The lamb fae the brecken and the doe fae the ben The salt sea we'll harry and bring to oor Charlie The cream fae the bothy, the curd fae the pen Come o'er the stream Charlie, dear Charlie, brave Charlie Come o'er the stream Charlie, and dine wi MacLean And though ye be weary, we'll mak yer heart cheery And welcome oor Charlie and his loyal train And you will drink freely the dews of Glensheerly That flow in the starlight, where kings dinna ken And deep be your meed of the wine that is red Tae drink to your sire and his friend the MacLean Come o'er the stream Charlie, dear Charlie, brave Charlie Come o'er the stream Charlie, and dine wi MacLean And though ye be weary, we'll mak yer heart cheery And welcome oor Charlie and his loyal train It ought to invite you, or more will delight you Tis ready a troop of our bold Highland men Shall range on the heather, with bayonet and feather Strong arms and broad claymores, three hundred and ten Come o'er the stream Charlie, dear Charlie, brave Charlie Come o'er the stream Charlie, and dine wi MacLean And though ye be weary, we'll mak yer heart cheery And welcome oor Charlie and his loyal train

[@murdochmclennan3510]

The first line of the final stanza begins with "If".

[@acerb4566]

Whos a MacKenzie? One of you wrote this! Watch>>"Scott McKenzie - San Francisco [1967] ReWorked"

[@calebmckinsey3529]

im a mckinsey

[@noaharita2293]

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[@KaedraP]

@jaldorian The people? If I'm not mistaken, the right to vote on who would be the new king was restricted to clergymen of the Church, and the various Lairds of the land. Not quite the same as the modern idea of a "people's democracy".

[@BillDFC]

Dundee and Montrose, both of clan Graham...

[@atthesink]

It did king James got the crown when Elizabith died with no heirs and the tuttor line died out James was the only person who could fill the seat apart from Mary but she was dead and then 300 years of ...

[@TheDdonmac22]

Wolfe iam afraid was a scotsman sorry aye the same general who defeated general montcalm.cest la vie .

[@veriasvincit]

The stuarts which the jacobites wished to place on the throne at this time were catholic. Therefore you can see that there was a large amount of support from the catholic highlands due to this. there was a small amount fighting for a pre 1707 scotland but this was not the major cause. a stuart monarch would not have given scotland its own government as that would weaken their power as the monarch of britain.

[@georgecampbell5281]

After the reformation "the catholic highlands" were confined to five small regions, Upper Banffshire, Strathglass, Brae Lochaber, Morar/Arisaig, and Barra/South Uist. Together, they provided only a fraction of the Jacobite army. Even then, my family in Brae Lochaber who were "out" in the '45 were not Catholic.

[@jacobiteking1]

The name Stewart comes from Walter Fitzalan, 1st High Steward of Scotland c. 1150-1177 the high Stewards took the name Stewart from Steward. first Stewart High Steward was Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland 1204-1246 Prince charles the prince of Wales is high Steward for the present

[@treen2000]

im a stewart thanks to my father from Delkeith, proud of my Scots heritage!

[@georgecampbell5281]

And Mary Queen of Scots changed the spelling, because there is no "w" in the French alphabet. Thus it became Steuart and then Stuart. In the late 1970's I was a member of the cast of "Columba,." a musical about the life of the saint. I was an amateur, but a fellow cast member was a professional by the name of David Steuart, then the Director of Perth Rep. I'm told that one of his most famous pupils was a chap called Jason Connery.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Aye ,but the descent is a we bit strange...

[@anabeatrizportoseguro5217]

subscribed.- Haendel was inspired by the Battle of Culloden the Jacobite rising 1745 - to compose the Judas Macabeus Oratory to Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland - which Battle King Charles took part-this song was dedicate to him -

[@TheFoxington]

perhaps you have all forgotten that it was irish jacobites that fought and died in the greatest numbers for the ungrateful séamus a chaca (james the shite) and who were treated most harshly in their own land. after the treaty of limerick, where king billy offered reasonable terms of surrender to the brave jacobite army, the bigoted burgeoning protestant ascendancy, literally tore up the terms agreed and enacted the penal laws against not only catholics, but non-conforming protestants too. this took place while english, scottish and welsh jacobites lay comparatively low. and throughout the 18th century jacobitism was the primary political ideology amongst the catholic, and some protestant irish population, at least until 1766 when the pope recognised the hanoverian line as the legitimate successors to the throne of the three kingdoms.

[@alistairthompson8311]

All true, but as far as I can tell, this song's about Bonnie Prince Charlie, whose active supporters mainly came from Scotland, so consequently the folk memory of the Jacobite rebellion that he led, which turned out to be the last of them, is strongest in Scotland.

[@nutyyyy]

22,000 Jacobites rose in Scotland in 1715, their aim to end the union and restore Scotland and its parliament. To a kingship of three seperate sovereign kingdoms, under the Kingship of James. So don't underestimate the support Jacobitism had in Scotland or make the mistake of the aims and sentiments were the same in the three Kingdoms.

[@TheSpiritof45]

@MoreLittleFishies I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO WISH ENGLAND AND HER LIMITED "EMPIRE" ALL THE VERY BEST IN THE FUTURE BUT GET OUT OF MY LAND AND WHILE THEY ARE DOING THAT GET OUT OF ULSTER TOO I AM SURE BOTH OF US WOULD BE SO GREATFUL

[@Druworos]

Well, if memory serves, James VII wasn't exactly well loved in Scotland. Besides, the Scotish Parliament declared him to have forfeited the throne and accepted William of Orange. So if Scotland was cheated by anyone, she was cheated by her own Parliament.

[@13agibson]

It's a pity all the best songs are about charlie and not a variety of scottish heroes.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Listen to more!

[@sapien82]

scots wha hae I suppose is about robert the bruce based on his speech before a battle. I guess a lot of the songs in general are about battles but not the heroes , 100 pipers is one I know just about battles , maybe bonnie dundee about claverhouse

[@VTX1314]

i dont really mind if a person dismisses royalty, Theres no example today of noble ande worthwile Royals. But Scotland was cheated out of her Royal Family. If Scotland was to become a republic by the vote of the comon man I would abide by that and feel we had laid to rest the true royal line with dignity. The Hanovarian/windsors have no place nor love from Scotland. Never had Never will.

[@BillDFC]

Quite a few meaningless contradictions in that comment!

[@martinhill7326]

But McLean did not rise in the 45 rebellion so would not have invited Charlie to dine with him.

[@petetaylor1803]

What i love about the Corries most of all, (aside from their brilliance as musicians, musical arrangers, and creative freedom that i envy being a practicing guitarist), plus their capacity to be great story tellers, historians and humorists, who take you to a time and place as they sing and play. What gets me is the debates their music incites in the comments box. Politics blaaaah, wars blaaaah, scotland blaa oops nearly said blaaah there but there was no truer word said that Scots 'couldn't agree on the colour of shite'. Sorry for the film quote but bygones are bygones and there are too many 'plastic jocks' floating about and spouting crap they've taken straight from the dinner table. Same shit happened in Germany during the 40's and it was called the hitler youth. I never gave hitler a capital letter cause he was a bloody demon, but in that same breath, aren't all kings and queens? Fight for a king or queen would you? Fair play to you

[@sapien82]

aye we maybe cannae agree on the colour ae shite , but what group of humans can really agree on anyhing, Roy did write flower of Scotland and the lyrics as you may well know say to leave this all in the past. I guess the reason it incites the debates is because Scotland unfortunately still has a religious divide that never really went away and also the whole Scottish independence debate is a part of that given that one side still wants to be a part of the crown and the others want their independence that was fought for all those years ago. I guess most Scots can agree the Corries are brilliant. sorry for the necromancy

[@VTX1314]

Eh! I'm well aware of the slight trace of blodline through anne.. However theres a lot of in house breeding since then. I mean come on, even die hard unionist cringe with embarasment at the Puke of Edinburgh, Charles the oldest prince on the planet, Andrew the Embarasment, and Edward the big woofter..They are inbreds.. I wish them no harm but they are a non entity in Scotland. You are technicaly correct, but the current line up have little in common with the Bruce, or even the Stewarts

[@BillDFC]

Charles Edward...what a chancer,comes over here with no support or money,ruins the lives of many gaels,then clears off again leaving the Highlands in disarray,while he return to live the rest of his life in a palace in Rome.

[@georgecampbell5281]

Not so much of a chancer as a poor judge of character. His continental pals in the '45 were the ones who betrayed him, and the cause. I'll provide the evidence in my book and everyone can make up their own mind

[@TheSpiritof45]

@MoreLittleFishies FULL APOLOGIES FOR MY WORDS MISGUIDED PERHAPS BUT MY "LIMITED INTELIGIENCE" WILL NEVER CHANGE MY BELIEFS SADLY MY REFERENCE TO SEXISM WAS A DIRRECT COMENT TO "DARKSIDE" WHO MENTIONS "BITCH" AND HAVING SEX WITH SOMEONES MOTHER THEN REFERS TO CHEESE EATING SON OF A FARMER THIS TYPE OF COMMENT WILL ALWAYS GET A RESPONCE FROM ME SO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADVISE HIM/HER ON THE ETIQUETTE OF RACISM THEY I WOULD BELIEVE TO BE SOUTH OF THE TEMPORARY BORDER