Come O'er the Stream Charlie explained
"Come O'er the Stream Charlie" (aka "MacLean's Welcome") is a Scottish song whose theme is the welcome the Young Pretender would receive prior to the Jacobite rising of 1745. The words are attributed to James Hogg,[2] who said he adapted it from a Gaelic song.[3] It appears in Hogg's 1821 Jacobite Relics.[4]
Written well after the events it commemorates, it is not a genuine Jacobite song, as is the case with many others now considered in the "classic canon of Jacobite songs,"[5] most of which were songs "composed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but were passed off as contemporary products of the Jacobite risings."[6]
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Notes and References
- https://archive.org/details/AlJolson Collected Works of Al Jolson : Al Jolson
- https://books.google.com/books?id=LkU_AQAAMAAJ&dq=Come+O%27er+the+Stream+Charlie&pg=PA35 One Hundred Songs of Scotland, Boston, Oliver Ditson & Co., 1858, p. 35
- https://books.google.com/books?id=Cc2dGZJ7Fg0C&dq=%22MacLean%27s+Welcome%22&pg=RA2-PA267-IA1 Henderson, Thomas Finlayson, A Little Book of Scottish Verse, Methuen, 1899, p. 267
- https://books.google.com/books?id=nYM4AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22MacLean%27s+Welcome%22&pg=PA90 Hogg, James. The Jacobite Relics of Scotland: Being the Songs, Airs, and Legends, of the Adherents to the House of Stuart, Volume 2, William Blackwood, 1821, p. 90
- Book: John Meier. Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung im Auftrage des Deutschen Volksliedarchivs. 1990. Erich Schmidt Verlag.
- Murray. Alan V.. 1990. Rev. of William Donaldson, The Jacobite Song. Political Myth and National Identity. Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung. 35. 186–87. 10.2307/848236. 848236.
