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The song has three main subjects. It praises the MacKenzies and William MacKenzie (Uilleam Dubh), the fifth earl and marquess of Seaforth. It lists friendly clans who would rise with the MacKenzies...

A fragment of a Jacobite song composed by Duncan Bàn MacIntyre, describing some of the scenes of the Battle of Falkirk.

In the first three couplets of this waulking song, a woman tells how she saw her lover pass by the previous day on a lightly-stepping grey horse. He did not acknowledge her. The lines which follow ...

One verse fragment of a lament, love song, and Jacobite song. A widow laments the loss of her husband at Culloden.

This is a waulking song with Jacobite references. It speaks of the arrival of the Prince in Scotland, and names supportive clans.

A Jacobite song which describes the Battle of Falkirk in 1746, between the Jacobites and the Hanoverians. It also mentions the Battle of Culloden and its aftermath, and encourages Prince Charles to...

A Jacobite song describing the Battle of Culloden in detail.

A Jacobite song. Who will blow the silver whistle when the king's son [Bonnie Prince Charlie] boards the ship? The clan chiefs who will greet him on his arrival are named and he will be given only ...

A Jacobite song, asking who will sound the silver whistle when the king's son [Prince Charles Edward Stuart] will board a ship to come back to Scotland. The ship is of the finest and he will be gre...

A propagandist song in favour of the Jacobite cause.