Parcel O' Rogues - Scottish Folk Song

Original Artist: Alastair McDonald
The first artwork depicts the Battle of Bannockburn
The second artwork depicts the Battle of Dunkeld
The third artwork depicts the Battle of Stirling Bridge
The fourth artwork depicts the Battle of Culloden
The fifth artwork depicts the Glorious Revolution
And the sixth artwork depicts the Act of Union of 1707

[@RenaHigu2006]

Probably my favourite Scottish folk song. Alastair McDonald sang some pretty tunes.

[@penderyn8794]

try the steeleye span version

[@penderyn8794]

The Steeleye Span version of this song is amazing btw!

[@deborahberger5816]

This is a musical adaptation of the Robert Burns poem, isn't it? Hey, I am delighted to have found your channel, with beautiful illustrations that you identify. Please keep on doing these videos!

[@sandymalcolm8824]

Very true hits home this one

[@flintlockbeithir4823]

fantastic love scotland from vietnam

[@covkid52]

Still very relevant today!

[@jamesbrand7075]

Now more than ever.

[@salimbegum3179]

Thank you for your 💯 truth 💯 SONG 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤🌎✌️✌️🤲👏🏆🏆🏆🌎✌️👀🤲💯🌎✌️👏👏.

[@user-zo8fg8zh5b]

Scotland Forever!

[@wboyle9721]

I think there are still a hundred or more still in scotland

[@lynseyh9976]

Never will we be under English rule...the document in Arbroath says as much.

[@jgdaillet79]

Beautiful . As an Irishman I appreciate this song .

[@RR-pe5or]

What does Ireland have to do with Scotland or this for that matter?

[@donsalluste1581]

Frenchman too

[@jgdaillet79]

@@RR-pe5or What I meant was that as a Celt ( though not a Scott ) I like this song .

[@jgdaillet79]

@@donsalluste1581 Correct .

[@jgdaillet79]

@@donsalluste1581 France has a lot of historical ties to Scotland .

[@DavidMcdonald-yt4gb]

Appropriate for the present lot of Scottish politicians

[@RR-pe5or]

All a bunch of EU Yoon globalists, determined to ruin Scotland by trying to turn it into an EU statelet.

[@Daniel-deMerrivale]

Nice👍I was going to say exactly that. The irony of the song and the SNP!😂 As a proud Englishman, I like the song and my Scots friends.

[@williamgardner2739]

@@Daniel-deMerrivale I am sorry to say, you have a Parcel O` Rogues in your nation too. Good Luck.

[@georgehill9959]

Indeed

[@NorrieMacTHESMOG]

@@williamgardner2739 they got no brain cells due to too much in breedng to know they are fecked

[@ZaShaRo-go9lf]

Bit scottish,started to be very interested in the history and culture of Scotland lately and i am in love with it

[@georgehill9959]

Singer is Alastair Mcdonald.

[@johnboyce8279]

It didn't even cost them much, £240,000 Scots, if I remember correctly, disbursed by Argyll as "parliamentary expenses".

[@Bruce-1956]

And some English ground.

[@RR-pe5or]

Then why does the English area of Doncaster still belong to Scotland?

[@Bruce-1956]

@@RR-pe5or because England never requested it back. It was ceded to Scotland in the 12th century. More information can be found on Google.

[@user-zo8fg8zh5b]

😢

[@RR-pe5or]

@Bruce-1956 Actually it was not only requested back, there were actually several English attempts to have it returned before the 1707 act of Union, what you're talking about is that there has never been any English attempts to request it back since 1707, but prior to 1707 there was. As for Google, the information is only as good as the knowledge and insight of the people who upload the information you are looking at. Even Wikipedia can easily be edited by anyone.

[@grahamfleming8139]

Sic a parcel o rogues in a polis station wi their labour party slime.

[@user-kp7gq6ou7u]

I'm a decendant of king Malcolm the third king of scot's! I love this song! Posted by Michael McCall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@user-zo8fg8zh5b]

The Bruce was my 20th Great Grandpa and I love it too!

[@glynluff2595]

It’s amazing where the Irish ended up!

[@davidbouvier8895]

A dastardly plot by Scottish lairds and English capitalists. The latter persuaded the former that they could make far more money from raising sheep than their paltry income from their peasant tenants. This led directly to the infamous highland clearances which forcibly drove the poor off their ancestral lands. A good many took ship to Canada and subsequently united themselves with the indigenous, notably the Cree nation. Those displaced Scots are one of the two European roots (the other being the French) of the Métis people of Canada.

[@arthurchadwell9267]

And many came to America. Between 1747 and 1777, the backbone of a group who were ready to fight the king ! The American revolution was a lot more than tea and stamps...

[@blugaledoh2669]

Well, I didn’t know that about the Métis.

[@davidbouvier8895]

@@blugaledoh2669 Yeah, it's understandable that the displaced Scots highlanders and the indigenous would find mutual understanding. Both were communally organized tribal people with the same colonial oppressor.

[@celluskh6009]

This is earlier - the Acts of Union. The Scottish who lost money from the Darien venture were paid off to sell Scotland to England, along with other MPs that were bribed, and others that had their English lands threatened to be confiscated unless they accepted in the Alien Act. The Clearences were similar enough - Chiefs were forced to send their kids to city schools (Statutes of Iona) where they were taught they weren't clan chiefs, but landholders. The time they were compelled to live in the city caused them to become indebted, and they paid those manufactured debts by plundering their clans. It started earlier and continues today around the world - teach kids young they should conform, and tax them so they can never be free. Now we happily feed from the trough and are grateful for whatever our masters give us. People talk about the cattle being replaced by sheep in the highlands, but it's the people that became livestock.

[@davidbouvier8895]

@@celluskh6009 Thanks for the additional information. I have read only a little about the Darien misadventure. Conquering colonies is a bit like investing in the stock exchange. You can lose your shirt if you choose wrongly.

[@knutclau705]

The golden rule: who got the gold makes the rules... mark me, no change till we change!

[@daz6637]

As a Scotsman, this is not a song! This is a poem by Robert Burns.

[@Alpha1918]

You gotta admit, poems make for great songs

[@RenaHigu2006]

I mean... you're hearing the song adaptation silly

[@daz6637]

@@Alpha1918 I’m sorry, I can’t agree with you. I’ve a spoken this very poem on many occasions, and it requires passion and thought which this song does not give it.

[@daz6637]

@@RenaHigu2006 I mean, you’re talking absolute bollocks, but hey ho!

[@Alpha1918]

@@daz6637 Doesn't give? There's a whole lot of passion in this song! Imo, singing something makes it better than saying it (unless it's a chant but that doesn't apply here)

[@andrewcomerford264]

Dear Unionists; The Bard hated the Union.

[@kylecope528]

No, he didn't: www.aforceforgood.org.uk/images/rb3.jpg

[@PerssTheMerryMan]

pffft, why would he care about the American Civil War? checkmate paddy

[@Dryhten1801]

Robert Burnes certainly did not

[@americaneejit9993]

Thats just not true, Robert Burns was a supporter of the Union and detested the jacobites. Why you lying?

[@penderyn8794]

​​​@@Dryhten1801 ... Robert Burns literally smuggled weaponry out of a Dumfries barracks as a soldier to supply the united Scotsman for rebellion that never came

[@AstralWitches]

Free Scotland

[@robertdick7839]

Aye ye rouges we have long memorys here.😡

[@hamishbrooks6933]

Scottish freedom end English rule

[@RR-pe5or]

Robert Burns called Britain the finest constitution on earth.

[@QOSHunter1919]

or perhaps the wit of man can frame

[@jackmcnally9237]

Puir mon had a guid hairt an' wis forced tae compromise 😢!

[@jackpirie7382]

Britain/UK does not have a Constitution

[@tophatgaming1873]

@@jackpirie7382 she does, it just isn't a single document

[@penderyn8794]

I can tell you're lying because Britain has never had a constitution Secondly Robert Burns ... Took weapons from the garrison at Dumfries and handed them to the United Scotsman .... Although their rebellion never really got going

[@uafchris]

There is no ancient Scottish fame or ancient glories.

[@craigkelly4278]

Yes there is we kicked the S:%t out of ancient Rome can the English say the same

[@uafchris]

@@craigkelly4278 The Romans conquered Scotland twice, both times they withdrew as it was economically worthless.

[@craigkelly4278]

@@uafchris you keep telling yourself that. They where never totally lost invaded yes but never conquered