The Corries --- Wild Rover

www.corries.com

[@janicekrieger1922]

This is 2024 and I greet, what a brilliant pair,

[@gicar7247]

I am Italian, and I was singing this along with Scottish, Wales and Irish colleagues when working in Nigeria...my past life... what a song!

[@aprilcamara5816]

I'm a Scottish in the Gambia.. Singing along.. Missing home.

[@captainwhistling6586]

Hi guys I m from britain, france workin on a scottich trawler with scots from peterhead .. Everybody is always surprise cause i play tin whistle on board and know and sing more scotts and irish song than them..🤣..

[@KittyStarlight]

Neat name. ^___^

[@carmeloturrisi7350]

2114😢😮​@@aprilcamara5816

[@666mrdoctor]

The girls from the audience singing were brilliant!!

[@gillsinclair6927]

You can't help but feel happy listening to The Corries.

[@sandylaird8029]

You can never get enough. They were brilliant. Great musicians, singers, and people's people. They made you feel they were there just for you .

[@davemacmurchie6982]

Some years ago I was cycling in an unpopulated part of British Columbia and encountered a bear on the road. I had no bear bell, so sang this - apparently badly enough to frighten bruin away.

[@runt8243]

Absolutely brilliant story. I like to think the bear was running to get his friends so they could enjoy this bonnie song :)

[@richardgilbert5339]

This song sums up the years I used to drink, right up to 2004 when I turned my back on drink and my chaotic life, still sober in 2023.

[@johnbeaven1185]

I have this and many others on a cassette from the early 1970s by the Corries. It was getting so worn I had to record it on a CD which I managed with great success. It has been played more times than I can count and is still played - usually in the car on long journeys.

[@SloopyDog]

When I was young I was A Wild Rover, now I'm a stay at home old man listening to this great music.

[@vickydunnett5394]

One of my favourites, they make you feel like friends!

[@texiagorman7568]

I love The Corries remembering my ancestors

[@allisterniven9356]

Definitely!

[@lidiaziolkowski3965]

Goodness! Dont think I'd never tire of hearing them sing--too bad Roy isnt around. Could cry!

[@liamrodgers7312]

i love the corries great music scottish folk legends that i have been listening to for almost 40 years on the verge of completing the entire cd album back catalogue plus a close friend of mine is the great nephew of the late and much missed Roy Williamson.

[@stoy510]

Bring back so many memories my dad would play them every time we where in the car and on a Sunday morning and family partys

[@user-es7rm9gb5g]

Im israeli born in s.africa many years ago some girlfriend turned on to irish scotish folk music it changed my life

[@Chris-eo5zs]

Let me tell ye, the younger generations appreciate the Corries. It's a sorry tale that Roy will never see the uprising that is to come. Thankfully Ronnie is still here, and we can honour the Corries by delivering the independence that will make us whole again.

[@bammy1690]

Will never happen Scotland will always be British

[@2true359]

@@bammy1690 Don't bank on it lad.

[@deadbydayinblack]

@@bammy1690 yeah, its kinda 48-52 right now. Just saying

[@thehistoadian]

I don't see the point of it splitting now days lol

[@historicaltunes9183]

Robert Bamford god save the queen

[@fenrislegacy]

Roy Williamson was the man, such a charming person.

[@lidiaziolkowski3965]

I wouldve loved to have met him! I bet he was a charming man or as we yanks say it a sweetheart!

[@jennifermcnish8867]

And handsome!

[@nicklatheron8795]

For my brother Stephen, missing you already

[@nikkimareex7932]

❤‍🩹

[@tombrown8416]

the corries are the best i have heard

[@Optimus18]

A lot of evidence suggests that this song spread from Scotland to America (ironically) via the 'Temperance' movement ...but its origins are so blurred that I personally don't think it is worth fretting over ...just enjoy it! I think it's a wonderful song and for anyone unfamiliar with it I strongly suggest checking out the many versions of it sung by both The Corries and The Dubliners!

[@YorkyOne]

It's actually a late 1700's English 'alehouse ballad'. And, yes, it has temperance sympathies.

[@jimdryden3692]

My first encounter with The Corries - GREAT!! I LOVE "THE BARREL OF BRICKS!!!!!!!

[@texiagorman7568]

I miss them so much!!!!

[@hannahmccolm4600]

I love the corries

[@homelonging]

The best version ever!

[@theevaseyler]

"you're the best audience we've sung for tonight" XD

[@eamonjames]

Great song, great band the Corries, complements the many other great versions out there

[@shieldmaidenofrohan3798]

There's a lot of folk songs in the British Isles whose origins are unknown. It has to be recalled that English, Scottish and Irish have been in constant contact for over one-thousand years.

[@fattyMcGee97]

but not the Welsh... they've just been swept into the corner of Britain and forgotten about as per usual.

[@SanClaro]

?

[@garymclausch4574]

Juan San Claro she crazy

[@brucecollins4729]

@@fattyMcGee97 we cannot forget the welsh

[@marcphelan9883]

The Irish are not British and don't live on a British Isle

[@wboyle9721]

Scottish and irish music sure gets the blood stirrin two great nations alba gu brath

[@Wotsitorlabart]

The song is actually English in origin.

[@TheScylla666]

Gooood, you gotta LOVE the Corries :) ... was the music I was raised up with :)

[@stevenlornie1261]

Ah good bit of humour in a great song. I miss when we could be funny. Good old days.

[@margaretgibson6125]

Great to hear good to hear good Scottish music brilliant

[@nialltierney7478]

Irish music Scottish singer

[@nawkir]

Irish

[@brucecollins4729]

@@nawkir neither its english

[@cmcc3721]

@@nialltierney7478 Irish are good at cultural appropriation lol

[@magbrown1]

Just love the Corries

[@kevross8636]

Aye, minds ye o' times gone by, good times.

[@XORTION]

God I miss Dublin singing this, temple bar

[@marylousamson2522]

I love the Corries

[@anniecoevering9724]

Corris

[@killiekentman]

have you woken up LOL great to see you back. love this one. thanks Linda.

[@hannahzwic5975]

these guys were great :)

[@wilfriedschuler3796]

52 thumbs down. What a bunch of clockstoppers. Corries for ever.

[@justsad-1392]

Hehehe! Does that mean the same as soul-less bastards?

[@wilfriedschuler3796]

@@justsad-1392 As i visited Australia several times I learned about the many meanings of the word bastard. I use it quite often. I collected clockstopper from the old cartoon Yogy Bear from the 1950 ies. You remember Boo Boo? Regards from Frankfurt

[@stark8818]

another great post mandolinda

[@sjb408]

When I saw these people that's who I remember

[@guillermootano3779]

Geniales!!!!

I´m a lover of Scotland but take the Lupin "flowers" back, pleeees!

[@ceanadach]

:D Ohhh,A new post!

[@jacobsgranddaughter]

Good fun!❤️

[@nataliehervieu8927]

Welcome x

[@gaconnochie]

@albabhoy81 I don't think it is ignorance. People know these songs are popular in their country so often tend to think they of their country. Re the fact that many think the Wild Rover is Irish because it became popular in Ireland in the 20thC. The song is probably an English (rather than Scottish) temperance song and exists in print in the mid-19thC buit is base don very similar songs which are much older

[@brucecollins4729]

I would say it was an English song too.

[@andrewwigglesworth3030]

@@brucecollins4729 "The Wild Rover" started out as "The Good Fellow's Resolution", written by Thomas Lanfiere in the late 17th century and printed as a broadside ballad in London. It is a moralistic tale of the type that Lanfiere specialised in.

[@brucecollins4729]

@@andrewwigglesworth3030 i,m scottish but this defo an english song

[@ScuderiaEcosse]

Happy Days - New Year - And A Big Old Malt - RIGHT UP YER KILT!!

[@happyyoutubeuserhappyyoutu8915]

♥️

[@fringemaster1496]

WAW 'MAZING INBRO

[@michaelclark1501]

Right up yer kilt!

[@JJsWonders]

“It’s only the girls singing, or some queer men in the audience”. Back when we had freedom of speech. Great music. I work in the Far East. Listening to this on Hogmanay good (smiling and singing) and bad (miss home).

[@laispessoal]

You meant "back when this was rooted in culture and people didn't actually realize it was offensive", right? It has nothing to do with freedom of speech. I'm happy we're keeping those things in the past (never understood why making jokes about someone's condition was funny anyway). I'm queer and I love The Corries. I'm not offended by this line because it has its context, but I can't be happy with some random comment wishing people would still do that in 2018, lol.

[@JJsWonders]

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. In my humble opinion freedom of speech means the freedom to say something that someone else with a "condition" might disagree with, or even find offensive or hurtful. With "hate speech" legislation (plus social media storms in teacups), freedom of speech, a fundamental tenet of Western Civilisation since the Magna Carta, no longer exits in many countries, particularly the UK. If this was said at a concert today the public apology and general grovelling and pandering to pressure groups would follow.

[@georgc6947]

@@JJsWonders Freedom of Speech means that you don't get prosecuted by the state for saying stuff. And you don't. It does not mean freedom from criticism.

[@cmcc3721]

We've made sooo much progress. I feel so much safer walking the streets in the UK in the year 2019 than i ever wouldve 40 years ago. God forbid someone called me queer.

[@breimalislobodnoime]

you can still say it, you know? nobody's gonna arrest you. we'll just know you're a jerk who hates us.

[@noahklinger7083]

Sigh. I've lived most of my life away from home...maybe I should call my parents.

[@mariafarrugia-harrison4491]

you should because one day you wont be able to and you will regret it

[@florenceabarai9383]

Hug from Scotland for you Noah

[@donaldcameron3339]

Yes call your family

[@xxXCHELLEXXx1]

Call them again, 3 years later. I can promise you, they'd never tire of hearing your wee voice. X

[@margomacgonegal6256]

Call them often! They miss you. Trust me.

[@realboltfan]

wow

[@uncleusa5054]

Great Scottish folk tune of Scottish origin.

[@henryellison1187]

Irish

[@alistairthompson8311]

+Henry Ellison I don't really care where it comes from. It's a good song. We've borrowed a lot of each others' songs over the centuries.

[@rapier1954]

+Henry Ellison Don't expect these 2 particular Scots performers to give the Irish any credit when due they never did. Typical Scots in that regard.

[@rapier1954]

+Steven Beattie The Irish had kilts in their past too and bagpipes before Scotland in fact they likely came to Scotland via Ireland, you need to learn some real history, although the pipes did not originate in either place. It ought to be clue to you as to these matters given that Gaelic came from Old Irish!

[@alistairthompson8311]

rapier1954 Farrell The Great Highland bagpipes clearly come from Scotland, as opposed to say uilleann pipes for example and along with Scottish Highland dress and through the addition of a drum section to provide the beat for the pipers to play to and the men to march to, the Great Highland bagpipes were encouraged by and developed as part of an ensemble in the institution of the British Army. In the process of the British Army's many campaigns abroad this ensemble became the world-famous bagpipe band of today. It should be clear to anyone with any sense that the bagpipe band of today is a military institution & it was developed in the Scottish regiments in the British Army. Although the origins of tartan, the kilt and bagpipes as played in Gaelic culture may well all lie in Ireland, the bagpipe band of today is an identifiably Scottish and British institution which also for better or worse has courtesy of its military origins imperialist associations.

[@fritula6200]

Wallace voted... YES!

[@johnmclaughlin9836]

Brill.

[@garethstewart2246]

good song

[@estelaashkenazy8179]

Born in the wrong time and the wrong country. I would've loved to see this live. But well... I am in Mexico.

[@torquemada3273]

Jacobites lend an ear lend an ear....THE REPUBLIC OF SCOTLAND 😀😀😀

[@rosebrown9265]

Great music and song

[@MNIWashingtonBureau]

Anyone know what album this is from? It's a live performance and I have it on cassette (somewhere) which I got in the early '70s, but cannot find it on the official website. Also had Lord of the Dance, and lots of comedy. Used to know all the songs by heart.

[@pamelaschollick2333]

I don't know what it's called but I heard this many times over in my parents car on an old 8 track tape. I will ask my Mother, I recognise every word (not just the song but the banter) from my childhood.I am now 47 and every now and then like to listen to the corries

[@Msizyke41]

+hyds its "in concert/scottish love songs"

[@wilfriedschuler3796]

@Hyds I have the LP. And I will give you all details. Just return back on my message to see, you are still interested. Regards from Frankfurt.

[@Phantom6051]

i am the wild rover

[@melive1961]

Me 2

[@andrewthorley174]

hi you still have it grate keep it up 01

[@Mazdak1]

lmao TRIGGERED

[@johnmcallister2434]

*

[@billhill6981]

Wow, Mandolinda. There's a name from the past. Glad I didn't step into the trap

[@joejohnstone4306]

vote YES

[@campinggrousebuyahouse91]

I did.. all true scots did!

[@kennymacdonald5313]

Laurie harrison No, they didn't

[@henryellison1187]

All idiot scots did

[@iankinnaird5689]

Joe Johnstone y

[@xxXCHELLEXXx1]

I did too.

[@resonator_95]

Great version. What key is it in?

[@kareenstrathearn7950]

+Angus Lamont (AngusLamontUke) key ??? depends on how much yoov drank haha

[@lartikus3850]

E

[@songcasserole3773]

It's in the key of G.

[@micselaneouswickedwitch3526]

The Wild Rover is an Irish song , 1970s the Dubliners had a hit with it .

[@Gadge87]

Its is actually a Scottish temperance song. Been made famous by Irish bands.

[@zagan1]

It's actually Australian

[@retepish]

it's a god damn good song, and lets leave it at that.

[@zagan1]

retepish the corries say its an Australian song, If you look up all the videos you'll see an black and white one and they say at the start "many people think this is an Scottish or Irish song but it comes from Australia." then they say wild rover then start doing the song. Even I thought it was an Scottish or Irish song until I seen that video.

[@retepish]

zagan1 I am not trying to argue the origin of the song, just saying it is a damn good song.

[@iainsinclair8875]

himnopunko SHITE-)/////)O

[@gaileenbuchanan6980]

Hi uggyoggy9 it is a lovely photo of a very lovely laddie isn't it a very handsome laddie indeed

[@tommongan553]

I always thought this song was irish????

[@jamesmcaleese7383]

The best version. Better than Luke Kelly's dare I say.

[@MDBellamy]

You may dare say this. It's a matter of opinion (I'm with you, though!) but we have both versions to treasure and enjoy.

[@garyrodden4426]

its good but Luke beats it hands down

[@W-E-A-P]

will shtopp no one will ever do it better than luke kelly 🇮🇪 up the Irish who brang Gaeilge Gaelic to Scotland and Isle of man the real Scottish are pics from picland known as Albain today name givin by Irish Gaels.

[@Wotsitorlabart]

​​​@@W-E-A-P Luke clearly enjoyed singing this English song.

[@baddow1654]

how could ye vote no ye betrayed yer ancestors

[@cheekybastard7798]

i see this comment everywhere and it gives me hope in humanity

[@northscot9862]

Conor Gaffney. Well said. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

[@robertwalker3062]

Fuck the republicans

[@murdochmclennan3510]

The best man I knew was queer--or gay.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

4:12 One lady was getting a bit overexcited.

[@docdr7199]

I think your "overexcited lady" may have been Ronnie Browne

[@jordansinclair281]

Haha, sounds like that because of the way he's distanced from the microphone, but that's Ronnie Brown

[@albabhoy81]

Why are we not as protective of our own stuff in Scotland? I'm 29, lived in Scotland ma whole life and I've only just found out this is NOT as Scottish song. Is it my ignorance???

[@Wotsitorlabart]

Apparently.

[@margaretkibbler1926]

rubbish

[@aprilhill7821]

margaret kibbler youre rubbish

[@cheekybastard7798]

ur rubbish dippit

[@northscot9862]

AWA AN BOIL YER HIED. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

[@scubafee]

You can't help but feel happy listening to The Corries