A RED, RED ROSE by Robert Burns, sung by Andy M. Stewart

[livisoul]

amazing

[glasgow1234]

Happy Birthday big man ! I bet yer up there the noo looking doon oan us aw, raisin a glass tae Scotland and her people :)

[bondie45]

@ LilBab93 I dedicate this poem to you xxx

[lagoondiver]

I love the thought of a movie with Gerard Butler playing Robert Burns!

[michaeljackson12332]

really hoping the michael jackson songs inspired by robert burns get released publicly! thumbs up if you agree

[SpectralWeave]

Singing this in a school presentation xD

[MrSmoke3y]

@SpectralWeave haha same here man!!!

[glasgow1234]

The most romantic Scottish song of them all !

[LilBabi93]

When a man will dedicate this poem to me, I will know that he's my one and only true love.

[kanjunior]

This is Beautiful:D

[muirne4311]

Just wonderful ..... poetry in music.

[rich8j6R]

@MelzoB

I'm related to rabbie

[annasujatha]

Someone played this for me in Edinburgh 54 years ago, and it still means so much to me! A.S.

[LauraBethEliza]

This is the only version of this that I've found that compares to John McDermott's rendition. I think I may like this one a bit better, even. What a beautiful voice Andy Stewart has!

[LittleMissTryMeBitch]

amazing. just amazing.

[Faenors]

so beautiful

[ivozob]

bella voce, bella musica, belle parole,belle emozioni!

[Clarkson1977]

i love you



[Truds1000]

" I HAVE LOVED TO THE POINT OF MADNESS...THERE IS NO OTHER WAY "

Thank you my dearest friend! Nightingale

[yumyummoany]

Lots of versions but this is the best!

[CyanideXMoon]

i love this so much. it was my grandmas fav robby burns and we had the last 2 verses of the poem in the wee book at her funeral... always makes me cry

[flyingvisit2]

Fantastic song, it's stood the test of time and will out live us . Beautifully sung by Andy M. Stewart.

[thandream]

awesome poem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TigerRuby5]

thumbs if anna sartin sent you here

[glasgow1234]

This is really beautiful !

[Espressivoarfa]

Thank you very much for this video!!! Sounds very Scottish! ... like I'm in Scotland somewhere near the Bard of Scotland!

After listening and watching it, I'm sure, that will be so much easier for us to make a proper real "Robert Burns" harp cover.

Promise to send you the result of our work for the test. :o)

Once again thanks a lot!

[KaetheV]

The greatest love of my life, my husband, who died far too long ago, dedicated this poem to me and now it always makes my cry because it reminds me of his love for me.

[MelzoB]

who are you rich8j6r? rabbie or andy? im andy's neice :)

[rich8j6R]

Just found out I'm closely related to him.

[snarlacarla]

Robert Burns and Andy M. Stewart--what a combination!

[northwestborn]

Beautiful!

Happy Valentines Day from Washington State!

[Kaira90211]

Andy Stewart has such an enchanting voice.

[scotsmaninusa]

@Kaira90211 actually this is Andy M Stewart.Andy Stewart is another famous scottish singer.check him out.

[Kaira90211]

This is so beautiful. I would love to learn how to play all the instrumental parts.

[nacho1560]

Happy birthday Rabbie, only 37 short years on this planet, yet in another 200 your name will still be honoured. The ploughman poet that taught the world rank means nothing, that we're all brithers. Thank you.

[TheTootitoot]

beautiful

[ross34561]

i've got to learn this on guitar for school. do u have the tabs??

[Thenetwytch]

can you by this on cd?

[Thenetwytch]

Love it love it love it, beautifull song .

[DaY8WaLkEr]

What a Wonderful Poem ,,,

[TrudieRobsonx]

haha i have to sing this song for my standard grade music haha but i am doing an opera version

[babybookworm003]

reading back on some of the comments i feel the need to say something Robert burns Loved his women but he was and is one of the greatest poets and song writers of his time thats why they still celebrate his birthday world wide. To use deroectory remarks regarding his love life or work ie the term mixed breeding and scots is an inuslt to his works and heritage

[Thenetwytch]

@babybookworm003 couldnt have put it any better my self, he is my fav poet and such a romantic,

[jmcheung91]

This is so beautiful. I'm listening to it and reading along to the poem at the same time. It's just so wonderfully beautiful.

[SnowIsRising]

i jus found out im related to this guy. my grandfather told me bout him and i looked him up. till now i had no idea who he was.

[jaswmclark]

Modern looking? Scottish women are the worlds' most timeless beauties and the warmest passionet lovers. At least the one I married was.

With poems like this why are the Scots considered a dour people?

[meakd]

wonderful

[Invernessian]

Beautiful

[MrMeowchy]

fell on this who the fuck is gordon bennett??? till we meet again? x

[HolyMotherofGrid]

Andy Stewart has SUCH a lovely, completely Scottish voice!! Completely delightful. I love the way he puts such poignancy into his singing: it is absolutely from the heart :-D.

[JohnPearson52]

This version is fatal for me. I can't her it without sobbing. My grandfather was a highlander and he left a crop of heather-tinged blood in me.

[LewisMasonic]

Did you know Burns was a Freemason?

[markoj34]

@LewisMasonic aye, and?

[Muirne311]

Very nice video, well done.

[NerysTudor]

i like him called bonny robin,his scottish nickname,a handsome man ,women idolized him in the day,he married bonny jean at grettna green,but he was wooed by women and fathered other children to them,they all died before him,and his end came because of buying land with hugh rocks that he couldnot plough for a living,i have been to all his houses,and loved him all my life.he was a man for all that n that..

[carriellbee]

My very fave version of this song!

[Cronopioslover274]

Beautiful song, a great tribute to Robert Burns.

[flumoxed38]

What lovely pictures. I'd love to see a film about his life story. Wonderful poet, apparently a bit of a looker too!

[USAsoldier1955]

Loyal British Bobby Burns....

Loyal Scotland in the UK4Ever!

BNP!

GSTQ! :)

[USAsoldier1955]

Loyal British Bobby Burns! ;)

[madaxemanbeer]

@USAsoldier1955 Were you on acid when you posted that?

[boxmasterpro]

This is great-real life and strength in a romantic song- a rare thing surely!

[jsbad1]

The one and only, the great Andy Stewart! Thank you so much for the posting.

[rocknrolllives]

was the music writen by burns or just the words

[TheElke59]

wish Tom would sing this to me

[arunesh3301]

great poetry

[guitardude9208]

This song is amazing...I'm just disappointed that it's not on iTunes or Amazon....

[meezergeezer]

This is so achingly beautiful, thank you for posting it. I agree, Gerry is the man to play Burns, I hope we get to see that, and well done. A favor? I'd love to know the name of some of the pictures/artists you used, if you have that info. If not, I'll just enjoy my newly marked favorite.

[BrynnG11]

i would love to hear a version sung by gerry butler... we know he can do it, phantom of the opera, ps. i love you..

i hope they make the movie too!

[jeannie988]

makes me want to fall in love

[MrDavestr]

There is a version by a 1970s Scottish folk band called 5 hand Reel - having listened to many versions I still think that the 5 hand reel version is the best one that I've heard - I saw them play in Newcastle in the 1970s and I recently found a CD of the original albums - well worth checking out

[ManFriForever]

Ok, Yeah, this poem is a love poem, but Don't roses die? Really! They do, so "love" dies too, if he loved the girl so much, why compare it to a rose? I know this was written in 1794 poem, but yah, it still doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm saying this because we read it in skool :D

[MontrealGirl1965]

Absolutely beautiful..best version I've heard so far !

[ChemDesther]

This is the best version I've found on YouTube. Better than choral versions, better than Isla St. Clair, better than Kenneth McKellen, better than Eva Cassidy.

[ChemDesther]

@ChemDesther Check, McKellar, not McKellen.

[1mperator]

Try Eddi Reader's version :-) My best version.

[ghotum911]

some of the paintings of women arent' exactly of "white" women I think. Can somebody clarify and confirm this? Did Scottish painters (or men) have a fetish for non-white women?

[Mr9111950]

this is not about paintings....this about beautiful music by a genious....so with respect get off this sight.....

[ghotum911]

my comment wasn't meant to be disrespectful, take it easy buddy

[Mr9111950]

I APOLIGISE .....

[4ryl4]

I'm Scottish and haven't seen many non-white women in our paintings. I don't recognise any of these paintings so who knows how Scottish they are.

[Liozzo]

This video was made years ago anticipating the film Burns, a long-standing pet project of Gerard Butler. Julia Stiles had been cast as Jean Armour, with others mentioned for Clarinda and Highland Mary, etc. These are photoshopped Scottish works of art with for Burns' face (Butler) and for his many loves (Stiles, Mary McCormack, Catherine McCormack, Samantha Morton). Several may be of Scottish origin, but they have a decidedly "modern" look to them. Couldn't alter that.

[meezergeezer]

@Liozzo Just wanted to apologize for asking earlier for the artists. D'uh, they are listed at the end of the video. I was so taken away with the song, I never watched to the end until tonight. Thanks again for posting this, it's superb. Sigh.

[TherealMrChristophel]

@ghotum911 that is a terrible question...

[carollizc]

@ghotum911 I don't know, but Burns had a thing for women, period.

[flumoxed38]

@ghotum911 I got a feeling The Great Poet Burns had Tuberculoses, one side effect of this is horniness. All those Victorian and earlier poets seemed to get it whilst living in garrets, and starving. - A La Boheme

[ShackieChan]

@ghotum911 Of course they do... That's why Scottish people are so not pasty- from all the mixed breeding. Sarcasm aside, it is in our genomes, although not always culturally, to like exotic partners, because it increases genetic diversity, giving offspring a better chance at survival; this is why farmers usually raise hybrid cattle as well. Burns was also a noted womanizer, and did some work on a plantation in Jamaica of which there aren't too many records, but judging by the comment by Liozzo,

[Pardan]

@ShackieChan Blah blah blah genome blah blah...stop excusing everything with genetics. We may have the genome mapped out but we still have no friggin clue what exactly each piece of genetic information actually does. It is all interpretation following the current materialistic paradigma.

[ShackieChan]

@Pardan Excuse? Excuse what? OK, here's a redneck take on it. Robert Burns was a nigger loving race traitor/we didn't come from monkeys, so genetics are fake. I don't have a clue what you're talking about.

[Pardan]

@ShackieChan You obviously did not understand my meaning. I just oppose the general explanation of every single aspect of human behaviour with genetics - simply because to take something for granted when it is not based on hard scientific data but on interpretation of data that is not conclusive is against the pure scientific method.

[ShackieChan]

@Pardan Well, I'm pretty sure I mentioned culture has something to do with it. I never denied socio economics. Here is a quick quote: "Sarcasm aside, it is in our genomes, although not always culturally, to like exotic partners".

[ShackieChan]

@ghotum911 it likely wasn't the reason behind the pictures in the video. In short, Burns could have porked black chicks... And way for me to end in a non professional note.

[priya1992]

Wish someone would sing this to me... **sigh**

So beautiful.

[AidanMacMahoon]

@priya1992

I will sing that for my fiancée next week for our handfasting.......hope she will love it

[priya1992]

@AidanMacMahoon Congratulations and I am sure she will love it!!! :-)

[bondie45]

Classic

[LewisMasonic]

So lovely

[largschap]

i listen to this song, i listen to my country,if i were anywhere else on this plant,i would long for my scotland,my mother is old,brother jim.

[fraserarts99]

I am singing this for my school's burn's supper

[oldun52]

@fraserarts99 Good luck!

[MasterOuchy]

You can find it on the Mini Pops album, available widely by K-Tel

[MasterOuchy]

Please, people! This is a cover of an INXS song, based on the poem by William Shakespeare.

[fraserarts99]

@MasterOuchy It's a Rabbie Burn's tune!!!!!

[Fjeern]

Shakespeare? HAHAHA. no, its by Robert Burns

[Londonjohn47]

Such a beautiful love-poem, simple, direct, and true, that touches the heart, mind and soul of everyone who ever hears it, and the haunting melody so stirringly and movingly rendered by a passionate and authentically Scottish singer. So many beautiful English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish songs. Have to say it saddens me to see many of the comments here that use this superb lovesong to promote a narrow and often Anglophobic nationalism. God bless Scotland, but England, Wales and Ireland too

[vec2ua]

There sure were a lot of beautiful women, back then. Beautiful art. Thank you for posting it.

[Slovomaster]

Fabulos song! And deep Love!

[MyLadySakura]

My all time favourite poem.

[2012knightstemplar]

This s great! I am doing a class tonight on Robert Burns, and this video will be the start of the class. Thank you for the great music and photos!

[Eisblume87]

You can download this song from youtube with the youtube converter! It´s free

[Lapsanglover]

and then if you like it a lot: BUY THE CD!!!

[juleslauwers1]

Hello, Does anybody know where I can get this song? I've been looking everywhere but can't find it.

[Lapsanglover]

It's on Andy M. Stewart's 'Songs of Robert Burns' album. Please note that the ''M'' is essential for getting the correct singer listed. A great CD that I warmly recommend. And please: buy the CD. The good man is no millionaire!

[LoveSenseDimension]

Beautiful.

[pywacket7]

Thank you Andy for the excellent rendition

[SamaCWNS]

Does he normally sit on his "n"s so much? It's different than what you normally hear.

[purpleartimis]

I first heard this song in the movie Made of Honor. I like it a lot in the movie. So I looked it up and I think the song is really great.

[SavannahOutenPS]

who sings it in the movie? Andy M. Stewart?

[purpleartimis]

No, it is the actor Kevin McKidd who plays Colin McMurray.

[SavannahOutenPS]

Oh ok, thanks :)

[Hemulen40]

Rabbie Burns .. a King amongst men !

[majesticscot]

Great vid  very powerful images

[sayencotaller]

Luv'ly!!

cantipoetas. blogspot. com

[burgerbun723]

wow great voice!

beautiful

[USAsoldier1955]

This song expresses Burn's Scottish British Loyalties, and his fervent support for the UK! ;)

[FreddyFredsta]

HA why do americans think they know it all. The amount of shit that you write is quite hysterical. So why dont you do us all a favour and stop acting like a smart ass.

[USAsoldier1955]

FonyFakesta, OFLOL

HaHa, why do you Pakis think you know it all? And what makes you think your incessant verbal & anal diarrhea reflects Scotland? You wouldn't make a patch on a TRUE Scotsman's bum! :D

Aye, Assie!

Burns said on December 24, 1783: "Loyal British Scotland....

FOREVER!"

[FreddyFredsta]

haha what the fuck i am not "ASIAN" im fuckin british my dads scottish n Burns is one of my ancestors u fuckin piece of shite

[USAsoldier1955]

FonyFakesta, LOL

Haha, Sorry....no one believes your a Loyal British Scot, only Pakis use your type of foul language in their posts. Could you be a "love child" of Burns? While it is quite true that Burns had illicit sex with hundreds of women, including many whores, none quite seem to match your genetic make-up. You see, Burns had no anencephaly, children born without brains, in his family. Thus, you cannot be a descendant of Robert Burns.

What happened to your sock puppets?

Aye, Assie! ;)

[JYoung135]

USAsoldier1955: as a fellow American fan of Robert Burns, I've never read a single Burns poem (except maybe "Does the Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat") that could be interpreted to reflect your views. Trying to put your contrived words into Burns' mouth is like trying to put whipped cream in a haggis. Trust me, it cannot be done. Such piffle cannot be sold as honesty and pride of worth.

Go read some of Burns' poetry for a few hours. You should come to your own conclusions. I'd like to hear them.

[JYoung135]

(And even "Does the Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat" ends with "but let's not forget the People". Or so my memory tells me.)

[Marnfacy]

I wonder how the original version would have sounded sung by the writers own voice, ahhh i can only imagine but i think it would have been like amazing especially in rabbies dorich accent,

[suparnapatel]

makes learning so much of fun..itz fantastic music.....

[redjan1963]

As an american, it's nice to hear a song/poem in the language which it was written, it just makes it more beautiful and emotional, now the american says, oh yeah, Gerard Butler...

[USAsoldier1955]

Thank God for such LOYAL British souls like Burns....Loyal Scotland in the UK 4 Ever! :)

[NorthLimitation]

Oh shut the fuck up, stop trying to start something Americano.

Burns hated the concept of 'Britain' you absolute full, he greatly disliked the union.

[NorthLimitation]

*you're absolutely full of it

[jamgilp]

You obviously know nothing about Rabbie Burns. Keep your ill-informed pish to yourself please.

[jamgilp]

"Alas, I have often said to myself what are the boasted advantages which my country reaps from a certain Union that counterbalance the annihilation of her Independence, and even her name!" - Robert Burns, April 10th 1790.

And lets not foget "Such a parcel o' rogues in a nation" and "Scots wha hae".

Your posts read like those of a seven year old but your name suggests otherwise. The arrogance of preaching about Burns to the Scots astounds me. On the other hand, you are American....

[USAsoldier1955]

jammedlip, LOL

Who gave you permission to use my photo for your profile, that's identity theft! :o

"Alas, Union with the Pakis is abominable....

but I'll take union with England any day, we have already conquered the land....and I have bedded half the women there, so half the bastard bairns are mine!" - Robert Burns,

September 11, 1791

And let's not forget, "I loved her true, my English lass, and then I farted out my ass!"

Your posts read like a two year old, but then you are a Paki....

[JYoung135]

Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord,

Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that.

Tho' hundereds worship at his word,

He's but a coof for a' that!

And by the way, the America I was born to doesn't tolerate foul-mouthed racism (I've never heard an American use the word "paki"), let alone SLANDER against great Scottish poets. If there's anything I can be so bold to claim burns truly disliked, it was pretentiousness.

The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth

are higher rank than a' that.

[texan6usa]

Beautiful song great pics

[NorthLimitation]

Haha hardly! Burns didn't support the union between Scotland and England.

[LALLYDOGGIECOOL]

What year was it when Andy´sung this?He sounds very different here compared to his own songs.

[genia106]

Liozzo,

SENSATIONAL! I just love the music, the vocal and the Beautiful paintings. I totally agree Gerry Butler will be Fabulous in the role, handsome Scottish lad that he is.

Thank you again for this Scottish delight.

[ginnykaren]

Absolutely Beautiful. Perfectly edited too.

[CurzonRoad]

What can anyone say? Wonderful! Thank you! Doug --

[genia106]

My Dear Douglasio,

Thank you so much for sharing this lovely song with me. Genia

[vectonia]

beautifully set to the beautiful music!

[thescribe2010]

This is truly beautiful! I'm a huge Robert Burns fan for many reasons and this song and video warmed my heart,

[TimeTravellersGirl]

lovely! 5 starred

[Fathishino]

luv da poem by robert burns. sweet.

[GEORGEROV]

Andy M Stewart is a tremendous folk singer but the greatest love song in the world deserves a classical singer. Kenneth McKellar did the best version.

[Pardan]

I pray to the gods of Heaven and Earth that this song will remain with us until the sun grows cold. Hearing it for the first time made me weep with longing, longing for that true, that eternal love that we all desire yet so few ever find. Robert Burns, I salute thee!

[CornfloweroftheWood]

Good words. I agree completley, Pardan.

[cymro1604]

Love the poem by Robert Burs and the poem has been put into a beautiful song!

[Pomepwns]

Wrong way round. It was originally a poem, and Robert Burns made it into a song.

[carrilloman77]

haha look it up, robert burns wrote it as a poem and andy sung it.

lol he had it right.

[blueinuslite]

*shocked* i absolutely love the singer, the poem and the music...such wonderful combination ^^thanks Ms Uhlenhopp for your class in English history yesterday :)

[Freshman350]

One of Scotland's great poets ;)

[pablox8525]

I love it!!!... =)

[Brookeyp123]

Yay weir singingthis in our school girls choir this year. its just beautiful i hope to do it justice.

[BachLoveNat]

O my Luve is like a red, red rose Thats newly sprung in June O my Luve is like the melodie Thats sweetly play'd in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a the seas gang dry Till a the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi the sun I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only Luve And fare thee weel, awhile! And I will come again, my Luve, Tho it were ten thousand mile.

[vereiana]

Very beautiful, Thanks,Nata..

[PhantomsGirl6020]

What an absolutley beautiful video!! I can't WAIT to see Gerry play Burns!!

[lilibet939]

brilliant combination of song and imagery- thank you!

[lion8800]

a beautiful song with a great interpretation

[littlemorella]

One of the most beautiful love song (poem), ever!

And Andy`s voice and interpretion is simply awesome! I love it!

[EmzzEcstasy]

What an amazing poet.

What a brilliant poem.

[bigeeezy]

excellent