03 - The News Fae Moidart

[@Arkybark]

If no one has told you by now, yes, Roy was the dark-haired one. And, sadly, he died of a brain tumor in 1990. He is mourned by thousands (maybe even millions) of Scottish music lovers, including those who, like me, were not fortunate enough to discover him and the Corries while they were still performing. Thanks to KZbin and those who publish the music, though, we can still listen and watch videos - From another American Corries fan with ancestors from the Edinburgh area :-)

[@carolinus7566]

Likewise. Me clan was from Chestershire refugees to Dundee during King Henry VII’s reign & his son Prince Henry’s harrowing of the north(of England). Eventually all the families came America’s way.

[@jockmcghee4147]

He is mourned by millions forever,oor best sennachie ever!

[@mwc6397]

Lucky to have seen the Corries perform at capitol theatre Aberdeen and at Perth town hall 1977 and 1979 ❤

[@vanatlas1220]

Roy and Ronnie's contribution to music will never be forgotten. A whole new generation of folk fans will carry their names forward. Massive respect to Scotland from Ireland

[@janettepalfrey3634]

Oh their concerts were brilliant saw them about four times in Glasgow the best ever live ❤❤❤❤ miss them so much

[@vanatlas1220]

The absolute power and magic from these two men is astounding. Ive never heard anyone sing as they do. The hamonies, power and passion with which they sing is epic on all levels and their gitar/instrument skills are unbelievable. Huge respect to Roy and Ronnie from Ireland ☘ Corries forever.

[@vanpirate]

True Bards of Scotland. We will remember and sing along.

[@hfree1973]

💯

[@gooblepie]

The history of Scotland-all of it,good and bad- gave rise to songs such as this and many more,thank God for the Corries in presenting them to us in the way they did,it is simply the best music I have ever heard and hopefully people will keep this music alive by playing it for their children,it has everything.

[@jackphilp7691]

One of the best examples of Ronnies voice skills.

[@abrhamgebeyehu933]

The news from Moidart cam yestreen Will soon gar mony ferlie For ships o' war have just come in And landed royal Chairlie Chorus: Come through the heather, around him gaither You're a' the welcomer early Around him cling wi' a' your kin For wha'll be king but Chairlie The Highland clans wi' sword in hand Fae John o' Groats to Airlie Have tae a man declared to stand Or fa' for royal Chairlie The lowlands a' baith great and sma' Wi many's the Lord and Laird They declared for Scotias King and Law Aye and wha dae ye think but Chairlie There's ne'er a lass in a' the land But vows baith late and early Tae man she'll ne'er gie heart or han' Wha wadna ficht for Chairlie Then here's a health tae Chairlie's cause An' be't complete and early His very name oor heart's blood warms To arms for royal Chairlie Come through the heather, around him gaither Come Ronald, come Donald, come a' th' gethir Declare him rightful, lawful king For wha'll be king but Chairlie

[@EKcyclist]

This song captures the hope and at the same time hopelessness of that great time. Alba gu brath!

[@iansmith101]

My gran introduced me to these fine gentlemen when I was 5, I was born in 1989, and Roy's death was the first one I mourned years after it had happened when I was old enough to understand.

[@silverarrowslk]

Superb. Here's to the King across the water

[@annaarkadyevna6]

I love them--they really get the darkness of this beautiful music--makes it haunting.

[@janettepalfrey3634]

This was the best two to see in concert the very best they were brilliant miss them so much but I do listen to their music all the time ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@TheDundeepieman]

this music is great ,, i remember watching it on bbc tv with my parents on a saturday night in th 80s .. the corries were /and are still ace !!!

[@jackphilp7691]

Ronnie, the master of perfect pitch. 🤗

[@beanofthesouthern]

I've heard some blame the poets for putting a false shine on the history but I for one forgive them. The Corries for one, give us the hope and romance we need to keep going forth in this hell for leather life.

[@joanr3189]

their role is to sing the myths of Scotland, and that is what they do. Historians tell stories in prose, not poetry. Both are needed.

[@TheAMTRAK]

Très très beau - Le sCorries sont vriaiment un groupe très attachant .La chanson fait référence à l'arrivée de Charles Stewart en Ecosse(1745). Une épopée qui se terminera très mal à Culloden .

[@TheAMTRAK]

Quelle magnifique hommage à l'épopée du ,"Bonnie Prince Charlie" et au soulévement des "Jacobites" de 1745. Dommage que cela se soit mal terminé à Culloden. Interprétation des Corries est remarquable . Voir aussi leurs vidéos avec< Paddie Bell.

[@jamieburns8955]

I never seen them live was my dad who got me into them cos he was from the highlands and loved them and hated the English and now everytime I put them on it reminds me of the family goin from Aberdeen up 2 the highlands where he grow up n where my grandma n his family r from

[@odinfromcentr2]

TO ARMS FOR ROYAL CHERLIE!!!!

[@BillDFC]

Moidart and Clanranald country.Glorious.

[@japanrussell]

Tell ye tis fae sure... I`ll be buying the entire lat of these DVD`s in loyal support of ta Corries and all they represent... Bless yall fae this !

[@magbrown1]

Love this one .

[@philmari5254]

Agreed!! The best ever!! M&P.

[@francette19380]

Love them

[@BillDFC]

It certainly was,he was an very talented bloke.

[@irishfan7943]

Corries are awsome great song

[@philmari5254]

Fabulous! P&M

[@matthewwiddowson9817]

Rise Rise

[@mwc6397]

War is so different now...maybe just as well!

[@thomaskane5444]

Many thanks to "KZbin", and the newly-discovered (and subscribed-to) fan club. The News Fae Moidart" has been a favorite since hearing it in Edinburgh in 1983. I am sorry to hear of Roy's passing. Does anyone know if Ronnie is still alive and performing their soulful ballads here in "Americae"? If so, is there a schedule of appearances? Are there any CD's and/or DVD's available for purchase? Many thanks, from a Loyal American Listener

[@cheerydavie]

great video from the bbc pity they don't release it

[@Ashbringer85]

Urg these comments...I see not many people know what actually happened in history, the Scots expected a French army to come and help them but only 7 men came, known as the 7 men of Moidart, in the end the Scots got butchered...its a sad tale and a caution to relying on others to come save us..

[@ALBA-js3um]

*Jacobites. Not strictly Scots. Mostly Scots, yes, also Irish Jacobites. Even English and French.

[@cigh7445]

@@ALBA-js3um Aye true that, there were just as many Scots on the Williamite side

[@carolinus7566]

The English jacobites or proto-jacobites got trapped by the secret police in a great ambush in Wales where the welsh and English of that side were slain, sold as slaves or scattered to the four winds. Near all we’re captured and died a “traitors” death for loyalty to their realm & King. Memory is failing me I think this was in the Republican dictatorship era under Cromwell but maybe was after at the onset of the orangish wars(either way it was b4 the term Jacobite got its name) I actually forget. Fun facts for Americans tho the Old Dominion Virginia & Marlyland & Delaware fought for the King when New England & England & Scotland were all ruled by Cromwell & lackeys. They were so called Old Dominion & Cavaliers bc they fought for the actual monarchy not the pisspoor banker/usurers monarchy that stood for little during the 1770s. Im not saying monarchists at that time had no sense but rather that the poison was already baked into the dough @ that time. Oligarch Freemasons on one side and Bank of England Freemasons on the other side(actually both sides).

[@suzannelaing2968]

Didn't help that Charlie pushed south into England. Might have been a different story if they'd stoped at least close to the Scottish border.

[@TheHerthaBSC]

fantastic greeting from tartan army supporters berlin (hertha bsc) alb gu brath

[@GBPaddling]

David Soul with goatie!

[@ironduke7423]

At the time Jacobites were at Derby there actually was a French force of 15.000 men assembling at Boulogne to invade from the south. Including that force the Jacobite strength would be around 20.000 men against the government troops numbering roughly 15.000 at most. But the French troops were called off after they heard the Jacobites were heading back north because the highlanders were misinformed that they were facing three armies with a total manpower of roughly more than 20.000 men.

[@viciouswolf1111]

Charlie was greedy and stupid. If he had been happy with taken back Scotland he'd have succeeded. The Laird George Murray should have took a stand against him and commanded his men to set defensive positions at Berwick.

[@viciouswolf1111]

That wasn't true. The French never sailed. They should have risked the storms. Mortar fire on London would have been enough to encouage the clans to attack.

[@ironduke7423]

+viciouswolf1111 that was actually the thing about it, they could consolidate in Scotland and have a fighting chance creating a Stuart Scotland but the original plan was a Stuart on the throne of Great Britain and not only Scotland. And that is indeed where we reached for something greater but lost all we had gained.

[@AndrewHennessey]

I actually blame this on the food at Watford Services ... the clans just couldn't eat the all day breakfast which had been cooked 'all day'

[@magnusosmond1835]

Fun facts two weeks after Culloden a french ship landed in Scotland with 2 million dollars in today's money just all the clans were killed

[@loneraven823]

This song deserve much more likes, come on people it's not hard to leave a like🤨👍that's If you like the song if not 😲😑how

[@gaconnochie]

@shimmerstar12 Nothing Irish about the Corries though. Both are 100% Scottish born in the Edinburgh area.

[@jockmcghee4147]

Sennachie's of Alba!

[@hfree1973]

A wonderful what cahrly would say know xx xx ❤

[@christopherd597]

Anyone know where and when this was filmed?!

[@1981Marcus]

There was a strong nationalist element to Jacobitism. The inscriptions on swords reading "For God, my country, and King James - Prosperity to Scotland and no Union" made it pretty clear that separatism was a key part of it. The "Highland v Lowland" thing has been massively overplayed: though there were very few Jacobites from south of the Tay, there were a lot of English-speaking, trouser-wearing folk from the North-East in BPC's army (and a fair few Highlanders on the govt side, come to that).

[@MrBollox79]

Greetings from an AMERICAN with Scottish ancestors. Don't worry guys I don't go around telling people I'm Scottish because I'm not... but my middle name is! Burd family from Orminston outside of Edinburgh! Charlie Burd Weaver IV! Anyway, this is a beautiful song... I can't get enough... is Williamson the one with dark hair? Did he pass away? That truly saddens me if he did. You Celts are truly warrior poets. Long live your culture and take it back in 2014 for your ancestors!

[@hfree1973]

Omg

[@hfree1973]

Hears a health for his cause

[@smith6640]

must've been fuckin terrifying, but what brave souls

[@sitvtamsitv1943]

today in 1745 the bonnie prince landed on these shores. "here's tae the king sir, aye, yeah ken who i mean sir."

[@BillDFC]

@Marti1745 I would never do that!

[@scottypiper2708]

the jacobite rebellion wasnt another war of independance but to put a diiferent king on the british throne

[@carolinus7566]

Aye! But independence (severe autonomy) w the same King of the 3 kingdoms: Scotland, England, & Ireland. At very least they were wanting to get Scotland with James III(depending on time period) or Charles III(tha Bonnie prince6 later on.

[@Hess512]

I think you mean the rightful King. Not a ‘different’ king. The house of Stewart was the royal Scottish family. The Hanoverian Saxe-Coburgs have no legitimate claim on the throne of Scotland they can change their name to Windsor all they please that’s no Scottish name and they are no Scottish house. They are Hanoverian and they are illegitimate usurpers.

[@italictraditions9231]

For Scotland's King and Law!!!!!!

[@qantas40]

Ronnie isn't dead, its Roy who's dead

[@Bill65]

language? Language:)Please!

[@manfrombritain6816]

i dont like the way he's staring at me as if i owe him my appreciation

[@VTX1314]

The 1745 Jacobite risings was at the time the last rising of a true Scottish army. Not a profesional army like the British army they fought but an army of patriots. Thats why they are lamented for hundreds of years and the Brits are not. The British army only inflicted one defeat on the Jacobites. The defeat was Culloden. but they had to wait till the jacobites were starved and exhausted to beat them.

[@alistairthompson8311]

I understand this comment is ancient by now, but I would like people reading now to realise that not only did both armies contain hastily-raised Scottish civilian volunteer units which made up for a lack of training or experience with a patriotic fervour, but both armies also contained professional soldiers of varied nationality. Eg there were well-trained, equipped & experienced Irish Jacobite mercenaries in French service embedded in the Jacobite force, as well as English civilian volunteers picked up in Lancashire. This is probably my favourite genre of music, but the history is quite complicated & doesn't fit neatly into any straight forward political narrative.

[@zoolander2485]

@TheJacobiker Actually, it pains me to say it but the British Army has Culloden on some of its standards- for instance 5 (Gibralter 1779-1783 Battery Royal Artillery. Ironically they serve in the Highland Gunners (19th Regiment RA). It shouldnt be on there as usually civil wars are not considered honours, however I think that their lineage was being sought out and whoever found out how old they were had it put on where it has stayed.

[@VTX1314]

JR Tomlin what are you on? this song has nothing to do with Wallace its about Charles Edward Stewart? and Wallace was The son of a Knight

[@VTX1314]

The songs rightly expressing that Scot's fi all over the land Did Rise for the rightful claiment to the Scottish crown.. IK dont know where your getting your info but Scotland was swept away with Passion for the Stewarts, Those to timid maybe stayed at home, aye but the Union was despised at this time and only oppresion and fear of death subdued more from rising. All the more reason to hail the valient men and women who did Rise..

[@j1mmysmack]

Why do you care about others opinion on your KZbin comments?

[@JRTomlinAuthor]

Wallace was not "from the common man". He was a member of the small nobility. Sorry to disillusion anyone who believes this myth.

[@susanlittlejohn8054]

COMMON OR NOT WHO CARES

[@VTX1314]

wot you been reading? The Stewarts ruled for centuries.. Prove your facts? weres your figures? o

[@NB-xq4qt]

The wrong Charlie now rules.....

[@JustaScotsman]

Time to rise again and reclaim our freedom....no need to burn the crosses and join the bonnie prince this time just a X in a box and we can stand proud and free again....SOAR ALBA.!

[@BillDFC]

The Jacobite cause has been confused by misty sentiment over the past 260 years. He was an Italian who spent less than a year of his life in Scotland. After Culloden he took off and left the ordinary people behind to suffer. Wallace and Bruce were true heroes.....but not Charles Stuart.

[@VTX1314]

Bloobear.. First of all Yes Wallace was the greatest of patriots to come from the common man of Scotland. The jacobite rising of 1745 had little to do with religion that is Unionist propoganda they want you to beleive. The majority of Jacobites were episcopilian as was LGM. However when I vocalise in defence of Jacobitisim my sympathy is predominantly for those who followed and fought for Scotlands sake. Few men and none of the comanders really wanted to take the campaing south.

[@bringbackjericho]

Total nonsense.

[@Consume_Crash]

Incorrect.