King George....updating Jacobean Fight Songs.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

Im a big fan of Scots folk music (tho my ancestry is German/Polish..go figure)

Theres a body of music (or songs) about the Jacobean cause...restoring the Stuart dynasty, which got wrapped up in a sort of proto-nationalism after Scotland was unified with England in 1701 to from the United Kingdom.

Alot of them reference "King George"...as the rulers at this time where the Georges from Hannover...George I & II...considered usurpers.

These are great tunes...and since there are references to George maybe we can rework the lyrics a bit to serve our own cause of "Restoration" and removal of a usurping head of state.

Came ye o'er frae Texas?
Came ye down by Midland?
Saw ye Geordie Whelps,
And his bonny woman?
Were ye at the place
Ca'd the White Housie?
Saw ye Geordie's grace
Riding on a goosie?

Geordie he's a man,
There is little doubt o't,
He's done a' he can,
Wha' can do without it?
Down there came a blad,
Linkin like my lordie;
He wad drive a trade
At the loom o' Geordie.

...or something like that.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

1. heres another

a folksong opposed to the Jacobites was "Ye Jacobites By Name"....but it was updated by Billy Bragg into an anti-Tory tune...Thatcherites:

You Thatcherites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear
You Thatcherites by name lend an ear
You Thatcherites by name, your faults I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I must blame, you will hear, you will hear
Your doctrines I must blame, you will hear

You privatise away what is ours, what is ours
You privatise away what is ours
You privatise away and then you make us pay
We'll take it back some day, mark my words, mark my words
We'll take it back some day, mark my words

The scabs they hide their faces in shame, yes in shame
The scabs they hide their faces in shame
They hide away in shame but we recall their names
And they know they'll share the blame for it all, for it all
They know they'll share the blame for it all

Your leader she has gone to the Lords, to the Lords
Your leader, she has gone

..which could be Americanized thus:

You Republicans by name, lend an ear, lend an ear
You Republicans by name lend an ear
You Republicans by name, your faults I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I must blame, you will hear, you will hear
Your doctrines I must blame, you will hear

You privatise away what is ours, what is ours
You privatise away what is ours
You privatise away and then you make us pay
We'll take it back some day, mark my words, mark my words
We'll take it back some day, mark my words

The scabs they hide their faces in shame, yes in shame
The scabs they hide their faces in shame
They hide away in shame but we recall their names
And they know they'll share the blame for it all, for it all
They know they'll share the blame for it all

Your leader He has gone to the dogs, to the dogs
Your leader, he has gone to the dogs

oh..well....just trying to think of some good political song for us....the Brits really have a certain fired-up/acid tone in their protest music...not too much of that in the USA since the Vietnam era (like For What Its Worth).

[mobuto]

2. LOL

I've run into a bunch who, before drinking, move their glass around in a circle, to honor the Pretender across the waters. Some things never die.

[markus]

3. Listening to Irish music puts me in the same frame of mind

Especially listening to overt Republicans (as in Up Sinn Fien, not the King George II kind) like the Dubliners or Wolfe Tones.

God Bless Billy Brag.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

4. Exactley!....Black 47 too!

They have some good political fight songs.