Freedom Come-All-Ye
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
1960
Track ID
82868
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1960.256.B3
Original Tape ID
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 while defeat their oppressors.
Item Notes
Hamish Henderson's own composition. The melody is an adaptation of the pipe march 'The Bloody Fields of Flanders'.
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good