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Freedom Come All Ye

from Heavy Duty - Ballads of the Unfree by Bill Lloyd

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Another inspiration from the singing of the mighty Dick Gaughan. Hamish Henderson wrote this international anthem over 50 years ago, but it remains as relevant as ever. (‘Broken families in lands we’ve harried.’) The song was a contender to become the Scottish national anthem, and I prefer it to The Flower of Scotland – not because I am English, but because this song is less jingoistic, and celebrates the banishing of the ‘rottans’, an end to colonialism, and the flowering of international world peace.

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Rough the winds in the clear day's dawning
Blows the clouds heilster-gowdie o’er the bay
But there's mair than a rough win blowing
Through the Great Glen of the world today.
It's a thought that would gar our rottans
All they rogues that gang gallus, fresh an gay
Take the road an seek other loanins
For their ill-ploys to sport an play
Nae mair will our bonnie callants
March to war when our braggarts crousely craw
Nor wee wains frae pithead an clachan
Mourn the ships sailing down the Broomielaw

Broken families in lands we've hairriet,
Will curse 'Scotlan the Brave' nae mair, nae mair
Black and white one-til-other mairriet
Make the vile barracks o their masters bare
So come all ye at home with freedom
Never heed what the houdies croak for Doom
In your house all the bairns of Adam
Can find bread, barley-bree an painted room

When MacLane meets wi' his friends in Springburn
All they roses an geans will turn to blume
An a black boy frae yont Nyanga
Dings the fell gallows o’ the burghers down.

©Hamish Henderson

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from Heavy Duty - Ballads of the Unfree, released February 1, 2018
song by Hamish Henderson / Dick Gaughan

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Bill Lloyd Kendal, UK

Bill Lloyd is a folk singer and multi-instrumentalist from the Lake District in northern England. He plays 5 string banjo and Galician gaita bagpipes, uilleann pipes and whistles, He is a versatile singer in the ‘high lonesome’ mountain style, delicate ballads, and ‘come-all-ye’ folk styles. Bill is an experienced storyteller, compere, music promoter, record producer and festival organiser. ... more

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