[Bards] Parcel of Rogues

[John Hirling]

Easier to set up a Steeleye Span radio station on Pandora.  Then you get all
the incarnations as well as other groups like Fairport Convention and
Pentangle.
~ihon

" The heart of the human problem is the heart of the human." Max Lucado


On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Emma Haldan <emma.haldan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love the Steeleye Span version of this, with Maddie Pryor.... Time to put
> those CDs on again!
>
> Emma
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:07 AM, John Hirling <jhirling at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > One of the great Robert Burns poems, I particularly like the vocal and
> drum
> > rendition by Steeleye Span.  Other favorite Burns works for me are Scots
> Wa
> > Hae and To The Weavers Gin Ye Go.  Although not period, they have a
> period
> > feel that has never broken the moment for me.
> >
> > For those who are interested:
> >
> > *Written in 1791, *Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation* is Robert Burns'
> > famous poem on the 1707 Acts of Union, which joined the parliaments of
> > England and Scotland to create the nation of Great Britain. It contains
> the
> > lines 'We're bought and sold for English gold' -- \ Such a parcel of
> rogues
> > in a nation! echoing the sentiment that Scottish landowners, bankrupted
> in
> > part by the disastrous Darien Scheme, sold out the Scottish nation for
> > their
> > own financial gain.**
> >
> > *http://www.booksfromscotland.com/Authors/Robert-Burns/Parcel-of-Rogues
> >
> > Only my opinion, but I wouldn't worry too much about trying to sing it
> > note-for-note as written in the Dragonsfire Tor Newcomers Book.
> >
> >
> > ~ihon
> > **
> >
> >
> > **
> >
> >
> > **
> >
> > *
> > *
> > " The heart of the human problem is the heart of the human." Max Lucado
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:25 AM, willowjonbardc at juno.com <
> > willowjonbardc at juno.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> http://dragonsfire-tor.ansteorra.org/Downloads/Newcomer's_Songbook.pdf<http://dragonsfire-tor.ansteorra.org/Downloads/Newcomer%27s_Songbook.pdf>
> <http://dragonsfire-tor.ansteorra.org/Downloads/Newcomer%27s_Songbook.pdf>
> > <
> http://dragonsfire-tor.ansteorra.org/Downloads/Newcomer%27s_Songbook.pdf>
> > > I have been trying to many of you to sing this song. Here is the music
> > and
> > > words.
> > > willow de wisp
> > >
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