'Wha’ll be king but Charlie' - Scottish Jacobite Song

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'Wha'll Be King But Charlie?' is a Scottish Jacobite song that dates back to the 18th century. The song expresses support for Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, who led the Jacobite uprising in 1745 in an attempt to restore the exiled Stuart monarchy to the British throne.
The lyrics of the song reflect the sentiments of those who were loyal to the Jacobite cause and Charles Stuart. The title itself is a rhetorical question, challenging the legitimacy of the Hanoverian rulers and stating that Charles is the rightful heir to the throne.
The song captures the fervour and passion of the Jacobite supporters who believed in the Stuart claim to the crown. It was often sung by Jacobite sympathizers during the rebellion and became a symbol of resistance against the Hanoverian monarchy.

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  • @lucario2188
    @lucario21886 ай бұрын

    A Magistrate that decided to stay in Edinbourgh wrote of the Prince entering, that there were more women than men in the crowd and that, public opinion after the Prince entered shifted in favour of the Jacobites and it stayed that way even after Culloden. In fact when people heard that the Duke of Cumberland was comming to recapture Edinbourgh they continued wearing Jacobite symbology, the Jacobite flower has a challenge to the goverment, he also wrote that the Prince hair was red and he was wearing the Royal Stuart Tartan plaid(The plaid of his clan) when he entered the city.

  • @Sacrifice-Loyalty
    @Sacrifice-Loyalty6 ай бұрын

    Great tune where ever you fall on the various sides!

  • @emilybosserman2042
    @emilybosserman2042Ай бұрын

    1:15 I have a bit of a nitpick, the lyrics say Scotia but the subtitles say Scotland

  • @richardcleveland8549
    @richardcleveland85494 ай бұрын

    A great tune - it'd be perfect for a segment in a quadrille.

  • @globe0147
    @globe01476 ай бұрын

    Thanks man! ❤

  • @The_Christian_Cavalier
    @The_Christian_Cavalier6 ай бұрын

    We should have kept The House of Stuart and a strong Monarchy, even if it meant keeping James II.

  • @debhin

    @debhin

    6 ай бұрын

    God bless King James II.

  • @The_Christian_Cavalier

    @The_Christian_Cavalier

    6 ай бұрын

    @debhin indeed. I never thought I'd say this, but: God Bless King James II! (Just a shame he was a Catholic but that doesn't give Parliament any right to depose him)

  • @stanleypines1026

    @stanleypines1026

    6 ай бұрын

    Cringe popery. God save King William III

  • @debhin

    @debhin

    6 ай бұрын

    @@stanleypines1026 "Cringe popery" quite the zinger.

  • @stanleypines1026

    @stanleypines1026

    6 ай бұрын

    @@debhin Thanks Seamus

  • @flyingsquirrell6953
    @flyingsquirrell69534 ай бұрын

    I love how the words that were actually said made me confused when just listening to the song I would not have had any trouble. Show the lyrics to an ESL and record their reaction.

  • @Imperial_Britannia

    @Imperial_Britannia

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah it’s Scots. When Middle English was still spoken (1066 - 1485) some of it developed into Modern English, and Scots came around, it’s like a blend of middle and modern English, so sometimes it seems like you can read, and it also seems alien. It’s a sister language of English. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

  • @olekcholewa8171

    @olekcholewa8171

    3 ай бұрын

    ⁠It's extremely similar to English if you count it as a language, and extremely different from English if you count it as a dialect. I love it.

  • @SanCreatividad-pd1pf
    @SanCreatividad-pd1pf2 ай бұрын

    Will soon gar mony ferlie means to bring lots of surprise.

  • @W.M.Pitt1
    @W.M.Pitt16 ай бұрын

    what's the name of the film?

  • @Imperial_Britannia

    @Imperial_Britannia

    6 ай бұрын

    Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1948 for about the first couple minutes, the rest is from something called ‘outlander’ don’t know too much about it, just saw that scenes included the Jacobite army.

  • @jacobitelivinghistory

    @jacobitelivinghistory

    6 ай бұрын

    A very good film about the Jacobites would be 1964s Culloden

  • @olekcholewa8171

    @olekcholewa8171

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@Imperial_BritanniaBonnie Prince Charlie is actually good, Outlander is some love story crap from Netflix.

  • @hipsterindietrash6105
    @hipsterindietrash61056 ай бұрын

    I gotta wonder with tunes like this, or tw recruitin sergeant or a few of the ethnically targeted american civil war songs. Like, were they really scottish or german or irish etc. Or was it just some englishman or american writing what they thought the people's accent was in a song to pander to them in an attempt to recruit them to one side or another? VERY few of the total folk songs got recorded from even the nineteenth century, when there was a wave of interest in doing so. So, to me, i often think that a lot of these specific ass irish and Scottish patriotic songs that relate to the english are, for lack of a better term, industry plants. Like, connaght rangers or that yankee eagle come to mind as tunes that probably someone working for the government penned and so that got preserved over something more organic. Anyway, just some thoughts

  • @RickJaeger

    @RickJaeger

    3 ай бұрын

    If Wikipedia is to be believed on this point, "The lyrics were written by Caroline Nairne (1766 - 1845)." And there is at least enough attested Scots language that we know it's not an obvious imitation by an unfamiliar foreigner.

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