Robert Burns: There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame

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Burns wrote or collected many songs about the Jacobite Rebellion. This is unusual in that it is about the 'Old Pretender'. Not Bonnie Prince Charlie but his father James. The self styled James (VIII) and (III); son of the deposed James (II). He instigated the Rebellion in 1715 but it was ill-planned and ill led. This is a suitably sad song. 1. By yon castle wa' at the close of the day, I heard a man sing, tho' his head it was grey, And as he was singing, the tears doon came: - 'There'll ...