Ye Jacobites by Name
id:
ye-jacobites-by-name-176-13166657
title:
Ye Jacobites by Name
text:
"Ye Jacobites by Name" is a traditional Scottish folk song which goes back to the Jacobite risings in Scotland (1688–1746). While the original version simply attacked the Jacobites from a contemporaneous Whig point of view, Robert Burns rewrote it in around 1791 to give a version with a more general, humanist anti-war, but nonetheless anti-Jacobite outlook. This is the version that most people know today and has been performed and recorded by Scottish folk groups such as The Corries and The McCa
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Traditional Scottish folk song
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Jacobites_by_Name
date created:
2008-04-04T23:54:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T00:22:49Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q3753912","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3753912"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15