Julia Dansie - guitar and cajon Lyn Gameson - mandolin Penny Hemphill - tenor ukulele Claudia Myatt - harp and cajon Elizabeth Swift - whistle Gerlinde Achenbach - guest vocalist
AULD STUARTS_MX1.mp3
KENMURE_MX1.mp3
Lyrics:
The Ballad of Colonel Anne
On her white charger Colonel Anne Rides out to raise troops for her clan Defies her husband’s loyal ban* Sworn to a foreign king.
refrain: Colonel Anne, Colonel Anne, Colonel Anne
When Laird Angus is away The Stuart Prince has come to stay As Prince and Colonel are at play Lord Loudoun plans a raid
The redcoats think they’ll have a ball And catch Prince Charlie at Moy Hall (But) A drummer, blacksmith and a boy Pull off the Rout of Moy
refrain: Colonel Anne, Colonel Anne
Lord Loudoun and his merrie men Run off in panic down the glen Prince Charlie lives to fight again At bloody Cullodén
Among the slaughtered on that day Was Alasdair Macgillivray The noblest warrior of the Clan Beloved of Colonel Anne
Jailed by Butcher Cumberland She risked her life and nearly hanged But Angus came to set her free She won her liberty
Two years on, in London town The Colonel in her finest gown Dances with Butcher Cumberland The king’s bairn takes her hand.
He begs her for another dance She says her tune’s his only chance Beloved of Jacobites in France Auld Stuart’s Back Again
As enemies or friends? Can music really mend? While in the Highlands The memories won’t end
Dance to my tune The Auld Stuarts Back Again Dance to my tune The Auld Stuarts Back Again
