Parcel O' Rogues sung by Alastair McDonald

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', were "Lord have mercy on my poor Countrey that is so barbarously oppressed."

When some 60 years earlier Cromwell forced a political union lasting almost a decade, Robert Blair, a minister of the Kirk, had said, "As for the embodying of Scotland with England, it will be as when the poor bird is embodied in the hawk that has eaten it up."

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[mwanacomete]

Where is this recording from? I like it better than the one A.M put on the album.

[brawladdie1]

@mwanacomete The original album was released in about 1969. It was re-released some time in the 1970s with the different backing track which was not an improvement.

[gruntlesnoot]

Great words, great music, great singer and great video. Congratulations!

[3tangle3]

2014 - and scotland long a province, be a nation once again

[BillDFC]

The kind of people who betrayed Wallaceare still amongst us.

[BillDFC]

@3tangle3 I agree, but fear we may be conned again.

[mugsie41]

luv Alastair McDonald singing this