The Corries Twa Recruiting Sergeants Live!

[@estalker1647]

Wow...I did not realie this was a real...song. A (mumble-mumble) long time ago, I was in a platoon of Marines and we used to do road march, and sing cadences to keeo the time. Sgt MacDonald had this tune - but his words were like - "Enlist, young Marine, and come along with me/we're off to sail the oceans, and all the seven seas, bright-eyed laddie, and come along with me" - with a bunch of lines about the Pacific, Viet Nam, Lebenon, etc.

[@superfamilyallosauridae6505]

I'm gonna bring this back wherever I go. Didn't know there were existing Marine versions

[@anthonypearsall5851]

I can top that! LOL In circa 1983 while a young soldier on leave, I was telling my dad a dirty joke about the US Army Rangers having a midnight naked inspection, and when I was only halfway through, he began telling the EXACT SAME damned joke the way HE had heard it during World War II when it was about British Commandos! I wonder if it's still making the rounds even now, but applied to Navy SEALS or Delta Force or the SAS.

[@johncresswell-plant2913]

It's a pity you can't recall the exact words Sergeant MacDonald (U.S.M.C., I presume) actually used.

[@Betojb007]

Ronnie's voice can make any tune sound epic. This is definitely my favorite from The Corries. R.I.P. Roy.

[@irenejillson4276]

Poignant

[@irenejillson4276]

Ronnie’s voice is perfect for this, poignant and powerful and heartwarming

[@Michajeru]

These two bonnie laddies are my favorite singers. Love Scottish culture.

[@BlackDesertZen]

best version of this ever!!!

[@Southsider_Pint]

Rest in peace Gunner Andrew Hall, died in 1917 serving his country. God bless the Corries, commemorating all who recruited and served their country

[@LindsayCurran]

"Enlist bonny laddie, and come along with me... It's over the mountain & over the bay Through Gibraltar to France & to Spain!..." - Aye, I'd have gone in a heartbeat! With a kilt upon me knee! - Thanks, firefly - these live clips are marvelous!

[@moragmacgregor6792]

LindsayCurran ~ Over the main, I believe, like "Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main."

[@murdochmclennan3510]

It's "Through Gibraltar, advance into Spain."

[@milky_memes829]

Murdoch McLennan It's over the mountains, and over the main Through Gibraltar to France and to Spain, Get a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen your knee An' list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me

[@pauljones5066]

I am an Englishman (so called)(northern English) and I really love this song! well done

[@ridge2542]

Paul Jones liking music isnt bound to nationality :)

[@vivianlemottee3291]

I'm listening to this beautiful song again. It's fantastic.

[@WhiteCavendish]

There is a Canadian version of this which was sung about the Blue Puttees, the famous regiment of Newfoundlanders that was raised for WWI. A very poigniant song about the courage and the pathos of that great generation and of the terrible toll their slaughter took on the people of the rock.

[@roymcdermott1836]

The Corries where true class

[@thoushaltnotsubscribetome3705]

*were

[@impalamama7302]

YUP!!

[@torquemada3273]

Loved them...so sad big Ian left this mortal coil so bloody soon....ALBA/ERIN GO BRAGH.

[@pegheadproductions]

This is real music, unlike most of what you see on TV and hear on the radio these days. Sad.

[@SirPetterTheFirst]

You probably have no Idea how many hours go in to making songs even the modern ones like Kygo's "it ain't me" it's not because they use computers that music is not music, if you think about it, some modern music is way more complicated then this, This I pull out the guitar chords and I can instantly play along, the song I named above, you need to learn the different parts changing rhythms etc. If it is you in your videos on your channel, then you are a shame to musicians all over the world, for even daring to say that. Yes some songs are written quick to get money fast, the best example is some American country artist of today, but dont take the merit out of people because you think you are more noble then them for improvising on a guitar, I mean who ever it is on your channel is obviously full of himself, you truly disgust me

[@sydzappa5082]

Man modern music is shit, just learn musical theories, you will find out a million of possibilities for creating a song, whereas modern music only use 3-4 accords, it maybe take some hours to create but there is no interest into that, poor, commercial bullshit. There is no musical interest into this.

[@joshm3257]

@proud Dutchman when someone has their own opinion everyone thinks its chit and does not matter

[@BlackDesertZen]

so amazing !!!

[@fireflyxl5]

Yes this is one of my favorite Corries songs:)

[@Leon_der_Luftige]

Is there a particular album or live version you can recommend? Greetings from 13 years in the future btw

[@SelfProtection95]

Amazing I love this song and by a brilliant folk group, shame theres only one left RIP thanks for posting :)

[@jongillespie2276]

This song makes me very proud that I got a chance to serve in the blackwatch with just the hackle in my tos and no tin. I was in during the change from regiment to battalion and although it is great for the lads making moving for a different role easier, it's still a shame for the history and lost titles

[@jonathantweddell2839]

traitor to the bonnie prince

[@jongillespie2276]

Conrad Jenkins cheers for that haha sad git get over it, acting like the wars still going on... your a few hundred years late. Sore lossers, is what you sound like to me.

[@hiddenknowledge2012]

@@jongillespie2276 I'd never fight for a British government in this day in age.

[@ComradeGrimmGames]

All I'd like to chime in and say is I don't think the song's really praising anyone in particular. Of course, you could sing it to celebrate the Black Watch but you'd be missing the point, I think. At the time it was wrote it was more likely a piece of parody than anything else. The devil is in the detail here. How the sergeants say "you don't know how much danger you're in" in regards to farming work and yet they're sergeants for the Blackwatch, a unit that saw intense fighting in all of Great Britian's wars during that time. The intention is for one to scoff at the suggestion that enlisting would be any safer than farming work. The hyperbole regarding "two rattles of the drum and that will pay it all" is also important here. The point being that yes, the Blackwatch gave decent pay but there's also an underlying question of whether that's really worth it considering you'd be in direct line of fire. Which I think is why the drummer was chosen for this stanza in specific, since they were some of the first in terms of the charge. And of course the important detail that *only* forty two have enlisted, suggesting that they might have reason to not do so, that they are skeptical of whether it'd be better to enlist with the Blackwatch rather than live a farmer's life with their family. So to me the song seems like a biting criticism during its time, questioning the motive of young men heading off to war for greater pay when they'd be dying to achieve little for their people back home, who would still be under the raw deal that the landlords and high peasants gave them all the same. Or maybe it isn't and that's just how I read it in the social context of the time it was written. Who knows. I think if it *were* written with that all in mind that it'd probably be just as relevant today as of then, where in my country (US) folks enlist for the sake of getting through college for free even though all they're doing is fighting wars that go nowhere at best (like Afghanistan over the last year where a steady amount of deploy troops die every month and the US and Afghan Security forces keep losing ground regardless). And at worse.. Well, that's a bit too unpleasant to talk about. Let's just say the US Army and Airforce haven't learned anything about preventing human rights violations since Vietnam & Korea.

[@jongillespie2276]

@@ComradeGrimmGames 42 is the regiments foot number not the number of people to join, another nickname for the black watch was the fourty twa. Life back then was pretty shit.. full stop wether you decided to be a farmer on the lairds land or join any part of the military. If you think history sided with those that picked the farming option, I would suggest looking into the highland clearances... not many winners in those days except the wealthy and powerful so in that sence I suppose it does draw some parallels with today.

[@wadefite]

Ronnie did a great job on banjo.

[@Asiseeit13]

Pure Malt did a fine rendition of this song at the Clachaig. It was dedicated to the boys of 5 Plt (Close combat platoon) 3 Scots Black Watch on operation in Afghanistan There were hill walking types from all over the world, A lot of lumps in throats I'm afraid...The boys are still going "over the mountain & over the bay" They've never let us down however grime their task.

[@winterturbin182]

My entire primary 6 and 7 we had to learn this.

[@patrioticarchive]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@vivianlemottee3291]

What a great song. Make anyone enlist.😁

[@fireflyxl5]

No problem! Look out for more of the corries guys, I've got 7 or 8 more clips to load from the same series.

[@cherrynook]

Ronnie Brown stayed in Edinburgh...I used to walk past his house every day going to King's Buildings Campus.

[@thedevilneveraskstwice7027]

The soft woman background voice is a great addition.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

lovely

[@Arkybark]

I think it's a BBC studio but I could be wrong. Someone should ask Ronnie's son Gavin. He runs the Corries' website and Facebook page and is good about answering questions like this.

[@killiekentman]

a classic, thanks for posting. Ray

[@greydivisiongaming8316]

Amazing song

[@MidnightBlue766]

The two recruiting sergeants= Roy Williamson and Ronnie Browne.

[@OldPumpMan]

+Midnight-Blue766- YES, The Best Ever☺!!

[@mijymotor]

ah this is pure dead brilliant!

[@fireflyxl5]

@MrPenfold84 I think it may have been in Ronnie Browne's house in the borders somewhere.

[@jerrysmith7789]

I live in America but am of Scottish and Irish blood, and feel the need to go home.

[@ryanlaird6447]

This is a Scottish song trying to get folk to join the British army no Irish here

[@abrhamgebeyehu933]

Twa recruitin' sairgants cam frae the black watch To markets and fairs some recruits for to catch An' a' that they listed was forty an' twa So list my bonnie laddie an' come awa It is over the mountains, and over the main Through Gibraltar to France and to Spain Get a feather tae your bonnet and a kilt upon your knee An' list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me Oh laddie, ye dinna ken the danger that ye're in If your horses wis to fleg an' your ousen wis to rin This greedy auld fairmer winna pey your fee So list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me It is intae the barn an' oot o' the byre This auld farmer thinks ye'll never tire For it's a slavery job of lowly degree So list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me. Well laddie if ye've a sweetheart an' bairn Ye'll easily get rid o' that ill-spun yarn Twa rattles o' the drum and that'll pey it a' So list bonnie laddie an' come awa

[@murdochmclennan3510]

The correct lyrics are It's over the mountain and over the main Through Gibraltar advance into Spain Get a feather to your bonnet A kilt upon your knee Enlist, bonnie laddie, and come along with me

[@qantas40]

Roy was just over a year older than Ronnie

[@misterdabalina4694]

When he says the black watch is he talking bout the Canadian regiment. Royal Highlamders Of Canada?

[@smillie382003]

the black watch of scotland. it is an old song

[@jongillespie2276]

MISTER DABILINA it's about the Scots regiment, the Canadian regiment came from the Scots regiment, that's why they have the bws original foot number of 43, they didn't become the 42nd till after the split

[@lewisdeering627]

Favroute corries song of all time

[@xXB88DxX]

o wow not I know that the song Recruiting Sergent (which is about the Newfoundland Soldiers) is obviously based on this song

[@susanmorse8410]

After some investigating (consulting the Corries website), I have learned that no music was ever recorded at Ronnie or Roy's home but for personal use. And this came from both Ronnie and his son Gavin. Attn.: MrPenfold84

[@Arkybark]

Roy had a professional recording studio in his house. - Ronnie wrote in his book published in 2015 that the Corries recorded album tracks there. He and Gavin were probably talking about live recordings.

[@diamondl1l]

jist braw

[@davidklein2774]

Nice

[@seannot-telling9806]

fireflyxl5 If you have the whole video this is from can you post that please. Also if you do can you respond to this comment so I know it was done. Thank You.

[@fireflyxl5]

Hello Sean. My uncle recorded this from a TV programme in 1987. Most of the songs on the programme are also on my channel, if you scroll through you'll see them, posted individually. (Although because it was recorded on an old VHS tape some of them the quality deteriorated and couldn't be loaded) I believe the programme can also be purchased from the COrries site, DVD has some songs not on the TV programme: www.corries.com/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=366 Hope this helps.

[@fireflyxl5]

Here are some of the other clips from the same programme: kzbin.info/www/bejne/poKzg2Chg6aKp7M kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYe0nJeMaayqgsU kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZjOeKWjappkbM0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJDIpoiFeMh_q9k kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJmuZIxujc-Hhs0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaSrZZaKZsyUZqs kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpayhZWKidKcebs kzbin.info/www/bejne/oanMhKJnp8ugfaM kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYe0nJeMaayqgsU kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqOreHVqptGUmc0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKS9popppKiVmdk kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqLbnZtvaKqcntk kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2G8ZGp7btekp8k kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKndpqduodh8ha8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYeugmenob-ko5o kzbin.info/www/bejne/foDPcoWXm7NlmZI kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYLFXnqoormaqa8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYmqh3mAprikp8k kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnm2d4aBjd6hmMk kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5etmWOLaNuasLc

[@cwftft4273]

Our anthem. FTFT 42

[@rumeunner3245]

Is this a studio or a pub?

[@whippoorwill256]

It's over the mountains, and over the main Through Gibraltar to France and to Spain Get a feather tae your bonnet a kilt abeen your knee An' list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me Twa recruitin' sairgants cam frae the black watch To markets and fairs some recruits for to catch An' a' that they listed was for forty an' twa So list my bonnie laddie an' come awa It's over the mountains, and over the main Through Gibraltar to France and to Spain Get a feather tae your bonnet a kilt abeen your knee An' list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me Oh laddie, ye dinna ken the danger that ye're in If your horses wis to fleg an' your ousen wis to rin This greedy auld fairmer winna pey your fee So list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me It's over the mountains, and over the main Through Gibraltar to France and to Spain Get a feather tae your bonnet a kilt abeen your knee An' list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me It's intae the barn an' oot o' the byre This auld fairmer thinks ye'll never tire For it's a slavery job of low degree So list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me. It's over the mountains, and over the main Through Gibraltar to France and to Spain Get a feather tae your bonnet a kilt abeen your knee An' list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me Oh laddie if ye've got a sweetheart an' bairn Ye'll easily get rid o' that ill-spun yarn Twa rattles o' the drum an that'll pey it a' So list bonnie laddie an' come awa It's over the mountains, and over the main Through Gibraltar to France and to Spain Get a feather tae your bonnet a kilt abeen your knee An' list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me It's over the mountains, and over the main Through Gibraltar to France and to Spain Get a feather tae your bonnet a kilt abeen your knee An' list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me

[@TheManWithNoName49]

Twa recruitin' sairgants cam frae the black watch To markets and fairs some recruits for to catch An' a' that they listed was for forty an' twa So list my bonnie laddie an' come awa Ch. - It is over the mountains, and over the main Through Gibraltar to France and Spain Get a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen your knee An' list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me Oh laddie, ye dinna ken the danger that ye're in If your horses wis to fleg an' your ousen wis to rin This greedy auld fairmer winna pey your fee So list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me (Ch) It is intae the barn an' oot o' the byre This auld fairmer thinks ye'll never tire For it's a slavery job of low degree So list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me. (Ch) Wi your tatty poorin,s an' your meal an' kail Your soor sowen soorins an' your ill-brewed ale Wi your buttermilk and whey an' your breid fired raw So list bonnie laddie an' come come awa. (Ch) Oh, laddie if ye've got a sweetheart an' bairn Ye'll easily get rid o' that ill-spun yarn Twa rattles o' the drum an that'll pey it a' So list bonnie laddie an' come awa