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Freedom Come-All-Ye

Contributors
Date 05 March 1981
Track ID 91795
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1981.104

Original Tape ID

SA1981.104.copy

Summary

This song opens with the imagery of a great wind blowing away the rogues who plague mankind. Young men will no longer be sent to war on the orders of jingoists, children will not suffer the anguish of lost fathers, and those in other lands will no longer curse invading Scots. The singer closes with a call to ignore doom-mongers and instead welcome all peoples. Hope will bring a just future, when the oppressed will defeat their oppressors.

Item Notes

Composed by Hamish Henderson (1919-2002).

Recording Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Language

Scots

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good