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The Green Fields Of France sung by the Corries
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Scots have always been overproportionately represented in the British Army. In the Great War more Scots died as a percentage of their population than any of the other home ...
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Burke and Hare sung by Robin Laing
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Clever, snappy lyrics, superior to any contemporary broadsheet on the subject. Laing doesn't glamourise the duo for their horrible crimes, or make a joke out of them - unl...
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Flowers O' The Forest played by the Scots Guards
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We remember the victories and forget the defeats. But not this one. The King, thirteen earls, countless lesser nobles, the Archbishop of St. Andrews, two bishops, two abbot...
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Blue Bonnets sung by the Corries
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The man who wrote this rousing lyric deserves the biggest monument to any writer on the planet. In fact, he's got it, and you can see it on any day of the week in Edinburgh...
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Parcel O' Rogues sung by Alastair McDonald
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Robert Burns' castigation of the Scottish nobility for selling their countrymen's birthright in 1707. Not all did so. The dying words of Fletcher of Saltoun, 'the Patriot',...
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Boys' Brigade - Will Your Anchor Hold
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Many a Scots lad was kept on the straight and narrow through the turbulent years of adolescence and beyond, thanks to the Boys' Brigade. Its values of truthfulness, self-di...
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The Dark Island sung by Fiona Kennedy
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A song that exemplifies the Scots' strong sentimental attachment to their homeland. Apologies for the age of the recording, taken from old vynil. Wee Fiona was only a teena...
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Old and New Edinburgh
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"There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century, or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland." -- Sir Walter Scot...
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Lady Mary Ann sung by Jean Redpath
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A noblewoman ponders the transience of youth and harbours hope for a brighter future. Impressionistic images from different periods of time.
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Hey, Johnnie Cope sung by Alastair McDonald
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Song mocking General Sir John Cope after his force was routed by the Jacobite Army at Prestonpans. I couldn't find any inefficient-looking redcoats!
"The sword is the we...
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