Come O'er the Stream Charlie

"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]

"Come O'er the Stream Charlie"
Song
Published18th-century[1]
GenreRevolutionary song

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]

References
  1. Collected Works of Al Jolson : Al Jolson.Internet Archive.February 20, 2004.
  2. One Hundred Songs of Scotland, Boston, Oliver Ditson & Co., 1858, p. 35
  3. Henderson, Thomas Finlayson, A Little Book of Scottish Verse, Methuen, 1899, p. 267
  4. 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
  5. John Meier (1990). Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung im Auftrage des Deutschen Volksliedarchivs. Erich Schmidt Verlag.
  6. Murray, Alan V. (1990). "Rev. of William Donaldson, The Jacobite Song. Political Myth and National Identity". Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung. 35: 186–87. doi:10.2307/848236. JSTOR 848236.


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